Add another horror thriller to Maika Monroe‘s filmography. Deadline reports that one of Hollywood’s most prominent current scream queens will star in 20th Century‘s remake of the 1992 film “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle.” But Monroe will be going against type this time, as she’ll star in the role Rebecca De Mornay made into a classic.  

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For those unfamiliar with the original, De Mornay stars as a woman out for vengeance after she miscarries a child after her sex offender husband gets caught and kills himself.

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The modern horror film is missing a key ingredient that you seemed to always have in decades past—creepiness. Instead of taking your time and allowing dread and terror to hang around you, creeping inside of your brain, modern horror films rely so heavily on jump scares. Sure, that scares you in the moment, but it doesn’t lead to a truly horrifying experience. That’s where a film like Osgood Perkins’ frightening, wild, and endlessly dark “Longlegs” comes in. 

Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is a female FBI agent who has a knack for incredibly reliable hunches.

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Not many people have seen the film, but one thing is for sure—NEON has hit the ball out of the park with the marketing of “Longlegs.” It’s especially commendable because clearly Nicolas Cage plays a vital role (and he’s seemingly under makeup even) and there is barely a glimpse at him in any of the trailers. But it’s working, and apparently the film is pretty damn good too.

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Nicolas Cage never went away, but he’s had a recent career resurgence. “Pig” and “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” were both critical successes for the star. Last year’s more commercial “Renfield” put Cage’s talent front and center as he took on the iconic, villainous role of Dracula. And the surreal, nuanced turn in “Dream Scenario” even put him back in the Oscar conversation last year, even if he ultimately missed a nomination.

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Coming on the heels of Baz Luhrman’s decision to re-edit “Australia” into a mini-series for Hulu, taking an already long film and stretching it well beyond its breaking point in “Faraway Downs,” Veena Sud has chosen to do the opposite for the streaming service. Taking her forgotten Quibi show “The Stranger” — a short-form web series about a rideshare driver (Maika Monroe) who picks up a deranged stalker (Dane DeHaan), leading to the worst night of life — and reformatting it as a lean 90-minute film, Sud recontextualizes Quibi’s ten-minute episodes into a highly episodic, and occasionally bumpy, thriller. 

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Getting into a rideshare is a gamble. To begin with, you are getting into a car with a complete stranger and then spending an extended amount of time with this stranger in an enclosed space that isn’t easy to exit. It’s a situation ripe for the horror movie treatment. Over the past several years, as Uber, Lyft, and other rideshare companies have taken off, we have seen several movies utilize the scenario, namely “Spree” (2021) and “Ride” (2018). 

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“Every year, there is another.” Dropped on Twitter last past weekend, a cryptic teaser that fans had to decipher and translate, Neon showed us all—even those who didn’t understand what they were seeing—the first look at “Longlegs.” An FBI horror thriller that sounds a little like “Silence Of The Lambs” in its mix of crime agencies and horror films, the movie is written and directed by Oz Perkins, the filmmaker behind “The Blackcoat’s Daughter,” “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House” and episodes of “The Twilight Zone” (Perkins is also an actor and the son of classic Hollywood actor Anthony Perkins).

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“I don’t want to give away too much, but we’ve thought about it,” Tom Quinn, then the co-president of Radius-TWC, said about the acclaimed 2014 horror “It Follows” in 2015, a year after it became a hit. “Flip the title. There’s so much you could do.” Now, over at the similarly indie/arthouse-friendly NEON pictures, Quinn has finally followed through nine years later. Today, Neon announced a sequel called “They Follow,” and director David Robert Mitchell and its star Maika Monroe are both returning.

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“God Is a Bullet” marks Nick Cassavetes’ return to the director’s chair since 2014’s “The Other Woman.” Cassavetes is historically known for being the son of acclaimed filmmaker John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands but also directed many cult hits, including “John Q.,” “The Notebook,” and “Alpha Dog.” With “God Is a Bullet,” Cassavetes assembles a star-studded cast that includes Jamie Foxx, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, January Jones, Maika Monroe, Andrew Dice Clay, Karl Glusman, and Ethan Suplee.

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What to say about Nick Cassavetes, son of the late, great John Cassavetes? His high marks as a director come nearly twenty years ago, with 2004’s “The Notebook” and 2006’s “Alpha Dog.” And he hasn’t made a film since 2014’s “The Other Woman” with Cameron Diaz.

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So why should moviegoers be interested in “God Is A Bullet,” Cassavetes’ new film, Deadline reports, hits theaters in June?

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The new horror/thriller “Longlegs” has added Maika Monroe to a cast that already includes the legendary Nicholas Cage. Directed by Osgood Perkins (“Gretel & Hansel”), the film will head to the European Film Market later this month looking for both domestic and international distribution. Filming is already underway in Vancouver, Canada.

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According to a press release from financier C2 Motion Picture Group, “Longlegs” centers on FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) who finds herself investigating an “elusive” serial killer (Cage).

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A lot of bad things can happen when you go out in the woods with your partner. There are wild animals. Horror movies taught us there could be evil murderers with machetes. But sometimes, as in the new film, “Significant Other,” the scariest part of going in the woods is maybe your partner. Do you really know they won’t murder you in cold blood?

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As seen in the trailer for “Significant Other,” the film follows the story of a young woman who is found injured in the woods, unable to remember what happened to her previously.

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A sophisticated and studious slow-burn that recalls the classical gaslighting thrillers of yore, Chloe Okuno’s “Watcher” yields a chilling portrayal of feminine alienation as it follows an alienated American ex-pat in Romania. We follow Julia (Maika Monroe of “It Follows”) while she settles into her elegant apartment with her husband, finds herself increasingly isolated, and struggles with an innate feeling that someone is following her.

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Director Adam Wingard (“Godzilla vs Kong“) and writer Simon Barrett’s “The Guest” starring Dan Stevens is easily one of the better modern attempts to recreate the tone of a 1980s action sci-fi hybrid film. “The Guest” certainly has DNA from filmmakers like John Carpenter, James Cameron, Paul Verhoeven, and Chuck Russell (“The Blob,” “Dream Warriors“) all mixed in to create something that harkens back to an era when major studios backed high concept R-rated genre projects.

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Everyone loves an excellent voyeuristic thriller with notes of existential alienation, right? That’s the vibe of “Watcher,” a new slow-burn chiller from Chloe Okuno starring Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, and Burn Gorman that premiered at Sundance earlier this year.

The gist? As a serial killer stalks the new Romanian city she is totally foreign to and can’t speak the language, Julia (Monroe)— a young actress who just moved to town with her boyfriend—notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street in this terrifying thriller.

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Don’t you hate that feeling of being watched? You may not even know that someone is watching you, but you can feel it. Well, that’s just the tip of the iceberg in the new film, “Watcher.”

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As seen in the teaser for “Watcher,” the film follows a young woman who notices that her neighbor in the building across the street just calmly stands at his window and peers in her direction.

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American tourists spooked out by what they see on their visit to a European country will always be a valid premise for a film. The same goes for movies concerned with voyeurism, whether our protagonist is the one watching or the one being watched — though they usually are both, as is the case in Chloe Okuno’s “Watcher.” Playing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, this new thriller brings together these two enticing premises, following a young American couple that relocates to Bucharest, Romania.

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Even though he is nearly 30, Dylan O’Brien is known for teen dramas such as “Teen Wolf” and the “Maze Runner” franchise. His new movie “Flashback” places him in a darker, more mature role that perhaps speaks to a new direction and growth.

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The movie, previously titled “The Education of Fredrick Fitzell,” follows O’Brien’s follows a depressed man named Fred after he starts having horrifying visions of a girl he went to high school with.

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“Mandy,” “Midsommar,” and Quentin Tarantino‘s Oscar-winning “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” have seemingly helped to usher in a new wave of films about cults and subsequent revenge to the modern mainstream, and director Nick Cassavetes is jumping aboard the train too. 

Deadline has word that Cassavetes (“John Q“) will be writing and directing a feature film for Union Capitol Patriot Management and XYZ Films, titled “God Is A Bullet,” with production set to begin on May 24 in Mexico City.

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You would have to assume that the worst part of being a rideshare driver is the fact that you never know who you are picking up. Hopefully, it’s someone that is pleasant, doesn’t smell bad, and tips big. But for the young driver in the new Quibi series, “The Stranger,” she’s pretty shocked and terrified to find out that her passenger may very well be a murderer.

As seen in the trailer for “The Passenger,” the series begins with a woman picking up a passenger at a swanky mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

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I don’t personally know Dane DeHaan, and no offense is meant by my next statement, but I absolutely believe his portrayal of a sociopathic murderer in the upcoming Quibi series “The Stranger,” based on the footage seen in the new teaser. Well, and based on his previous performances, where he brings a level of creepiness to everything he does.

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The teaser for “The Stranger” sets up the premise for the streaming series pretty well.

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Often regarded as “less than” when it comes to cinema, the horror genre isn’t just a place to find scares and thrills. Buried under buckets of blood, scary masks, and supernatural mishaps are some truly great performances. And no, not just “good enough for a horror film” performances. We’re talking some of the best actors in the business turning in some of the best work of their career.

You want to tell Toni Collette that her already-iconic performance in “Hereditary” isn’t up there with what Olivia Colman did in last year’s “The Favourite?” It’s just that Colman earned an Oscar and Collette was robbed of even a nomination.

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With low-budget horror films becoming so ubiquitous, for a film to succeed, it has to break the mold. Judging by the first trailer for “Villains,” the new stylish, but twisted, horror film definitely takes the typical home invasion thriller and turns it on its head.

“Villains” tells the story of a Bonnie & Clyde-esque couple that is on the run, looking for a place to hide out. They break into what seems to be a nice home, while the residents aren’t there.

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“Bonnie And Clyde” and lovers on the lam narratives never cease to compel and fascinate us, perhaps because doing something naughty, illegal or perverse in the name of love is strangely really f*cking romantic. There’s a propulsion—the “on the run” side of things—that usually drives these tales, but when you ground it to a halt with a one-location detour, and add an equally transgressive romantic pair to the mix you can get some surprisingly interesting results.

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PARK CITY: During the Q&A following the world premiere of “Honey Boy” at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, screenwriter and star Shia LaBeouf said that writing the script after his latest stint in rehab was “gestalt therapy.”  Considering so much of it is based on LaBeouf’s real and complicated relationship with his father, that’s not a surprise. The result turns out to be not only a triumph for LaBeouf but a spectacular narrative debut for noted documentary filmmaker Alma Har’el.

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