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Ahead of an April 3 broadcast on Japanese television, a brand-new trailer released for The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows today previews the upcoming fantasy anime's ending song, "Tsuki ni Negau" by sorato. The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows Ending Song Trailer The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows anime's confirmed cast is as follows: Zenos voiced by Shogo Sakata (Usato in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic ) Lily voiced by Miharu Hanai (Elena in A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring ) Carmilla voiced by Yoko Hikasa (Pencilgon in Shangri-La Frontier ) Zophia voiced by Anna Nagase Lynga voiced by Mashiro Hitaka Loewe voiced by Sayaka Kikuchi Krishna voiced by Yuki Nakashima Zonde voiced by Taku Yashiro Aston voiced by Masaaki Mizunaka Related: The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows Anime Reveals Release Date, Main Cast and Staff Based on the light novels by Sakaku Hishikawa and Daburyu,...

Following the film’s global success theatrically, Focus Features’ Nosferatu begins streaming exclusively on Peacock on February 21. Peacock will also stream the film’s never-before-seen-in-theaters extended cut.

Rated R for bloody violent content, graphic nudity and some sexual content, Nosferatu has grossed $175.9 million at the global box office. The film earned $95.5 million at North American theaters and $80.4 million from international markets.

The film is nominated for five BAFTA Awards and four Academy Awards. The Academy Award nominations include Best Cinematography (Jarin Blaschke), Best Costume Design (Linda Muir), Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Production Design (Craig Lathrop; Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová).

From acclaimed director Robert Eggers, Nosferatu stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe.

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

Fresh off its four Academy Award nominations, Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu will stream exclusively on Peacock on February 21.

Both the 132-minute theatrical cut and the 136-minute extended cut will be available on the streaming service, along with a behind-the-scenes featurette, Nosferatu: An Inside Look.

Other vampire films on Peacock include Werner Herzog‘s Nosferatu the Vampyre, Dan Curtis’ Dracula, Dracula’s Widow, Count Dracula’s Greatest Love, The Carmilla Movie, Carmilla, Stake Land, Stake Land II, and The Reflecting Skin.

A reimagination of F.W. Murnau‘s 1922 silent horror classic, Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

Bill Skarsgård stars as Count Orlok with Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, and Willem Dafoe.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her 5-skull review, “It’s so impeccably crafted, boasting production design and values rarely seen in horror like this,...

With films like “The Witch” (2015) and “The Lighthouse” (2019), filmmaker Robert Eggers has already strengthened his reputation as a critically celebrated auteur. And in “Nosferatu” (2024), he replaces the expressionist wonder of “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” (1922) with the somber moodiness of his craft that shapes up the fictional town of 1830s Germany, called Wisburg, which is unaware of the oncoming of evil. In it resides realtor Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) and his newlywed wife, Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp). There’s also their friends Friedrich Harding (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), a rich merchant, and Anna Harding (Emma Corrin), who are happily married to each other with two daughters.

“Nosferatu” (2024) is dark and aggressively sensual but Eggers’ vision of the material is more of a treatise on power and evil. He makes the classic story of a real estate agent, Thomas Hutter, going up to the Pennsylvanian hills to secure a property deal with the...

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Robert Eggers' 2024 remake of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu is proving to be well worth the wait, with audiences and critics both sinking their teeth into the modern vampire classic. As many already know, it's a less-than-official version of the most iconic vampire story of them all. Now that Count Orlok has been given his due on the big screen once again, it's time for another legendary vampire to get a similar treatment -- namely one who's never had a major movie of her own.

Carmilla is a rather infamous vampire novella, with the story notable for predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by a quarter of a century. It introduced many of the tropes that Stoker's story helped popularize, the likes...

Robert Eggers’ version of Nosferatu opens with a breathtaking sequence of dark psychosexual romance, as melancholy maiden Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp) is beckoned by a mysterious figure out of her bedroom and onto the manicured lawn of a dignified manor home. Her white nightgown billows behind her under blue moonlight,...

Vampyr. Upir. Dracula. Nosferatu. The ever-evolving vampire myth, which can be traced all the way back to A.D. 1047, has given many names to the dangerous, alluring entity at the center of these frightening folkloric tales. In every iteration, the vampire's natural state of existence was considered parasitic, which quickly became synonymous with the rise of untreated diseases that plagued the world at the time. The act of feasting on another, fangs bared, also had a sacrilegious overtone, wherein the sullying of the soul weighed heavier than the physical implications of being attacked. After Bram Stoker incorporated these myths about the undead into his 1897 gothic horror novel "Dracula," an enduring shift took place in the public consciousness, its relationship with vampire myths, and how they would be reinvented for years to come.

Robert Eggers' "Nosferatu" (read /Film's review), which is an astounding, boundary-pushing culmination of more than 100 years of vampiric history,...

'Tis the season to be ... bloodsucking. Reviews already suggest that director Robert Eggers’ upcoming remake of Nosferatu is terrifying and on par with his previous three acclaimed films. In homage to all things vampire, fans should give credit where its due to the original fanged menace. And no, it’s not Bram Stoker’s Dracula or even the lesser known Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. It’s actually Lord Ruthven from John William Polidori’s 1819 novella, The Vampyre (which may have been written in equal parts tribute and spite to Lord Byron). Ruthven can be considered the archetype of the vampire figure that has frightened book and cinema fans for two centuries. The curious and fright-fanatic alike should take a deep dive into this obscure book of the horror canon. All the classic tropes that have defined the vampire genre can be found in it. In anticipation of Eggers' entry into this niche,...

It’s that time of year again when the European Film Promotion has announced the ten up-and-coming European acting talents selected for the 28th edition of European Shooting Stars.

Presented to the international press, film industry, and public during the 75th Berlinale (13–23 February 2025). As part of this initiative, the actors will participate in a tailor-made, four-day programme – substantially supported by Creative Europe’s Media Programme of the European Union – that will peak with the European Shooting Stars Awards Ceremony on 17 February 2025 at the Berlinale Palast.

Selected by an international jury, comprised of Romanian director and screenwriter Radu Muntean, Swedish casting director Pauline Hansson, Swiss producer Amel Soudani, French actress and former Shooting Star Ludivine Sagnier and Montenegrin journalist and curator Vuk Perović. The five experts recognised the talents‘ remarkable potential for an international career, citing several factors, including their outstanding work in feature films and drama series.

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The jury for European Shooting Stars, the program that promotes rising actors from Europe, has revealed its 2025 lineup. Shooting Stars from previous editions have included Riz Ahmed, Leonie Benesch, George MacKay, Carey Mulligan, Alba Rohrwacher, Bill Skarsgård, Alicia Vikander and Maisie Williams.

The actors will be presented to the international press, film industry and public during the 75th Berlinale, which runs Feb. 13 – 23. They will take part in a tailor-made, four-day program that will culminate with an awards ceremony on Feb. 17 at the Berlinale Palast. The program is organized by European Film Promotion and is supported by Creative Europe’s Media Programme of the European Union.

The 10 actors selected for its 28th edition are Marina Makris (Cyprus), Besir Zeciri (Denmark), Maarja Johanna Mägi (Estonia), Devrim Lingnau (Germany), Elín Hall (Iceland), Kārlis Arnolds Avots (Latvia), Šarūnas Zenkevičius (Lithuania), Lidija Kordić (Montenegro), Vicente Wallenstein (Portugal) and Frida Gustavsson (Sweden).

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The Empress is a German-language drama series thats found huge success on Netflix, telling the story of a young girl named Elisabeth who falls in love with Emperor Franz of Austria and later becomes his bride, bringing her deep into the world of politics. The show is filled with mystery and intrigue, exploring the less public side of the royal family that Elisabeth wasnt privy to before letting love bring her into this world. The Empress is inspired by real events that happened in the Austrian court in the 1800s, and brings much of this intense realism to its story.

The Empress has an excellent cast that manages to make all this high-stakes politics feel extremely grounded, allowing the audience to relate to their characters and understand all the complex relationships at play. Season 2 of The Empress introduces even more interesting characters and subplots that elevate the show even further,...

No matter what the era, vampires never go out of style. Since Sheridan Le Fenu first wrote the 1872 premiere vampire tale Carmilla, the immortal beings of everyone's nightmares have always been a source of fascination. The nightwalker's diet of human blood and aversion to sunlight have often given birth to a genre that delves into the metaphor. The horror subgenre has given rise to many popular franchises, such as Twilight and The Vampire Diaries.

However, the films that focus on the darker aspects of human nature and metaphorical stories about the creatures of the night are the most impressive. Certainly, Twilight has a place in pop culture for its own success, but there is only a collection of vampire films that are the cream of the crop.

Bram Stokers Dracula Adapted One of the Oldest Fixtures in Vampire Fiction

There have been many adaptations of Bram Stoker's epistolary novel,...

Like its genre cousin, science fiction, horror films have long used supernatural terrors as stand-ins for real-life fears. When Jordan Peele used the genre to show white supremacy as the ultimate terror in “Get Out,” he was inspired by years of socio-political readings of his favorite horror films. Even though openly LGBTQ characters in horror were rare until recently, when it comes to queer subtext, the genre is ripe for exploring themes such as possession, body transformation, fear of the other, uncontrollable desire, and hidden identities.

As explored in Shudder’s exhaustive docuseries “Queer For Fear: The History of Queer Horror,” the history of horror aligns pretty significantly with the history of queer film. The series traces the genre’s origins, beginning with a reclamation of Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker as queer writers, through Alfred Hitchcock’s many queer-coded films, and runs all the way to Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story” empire.

With the horror genres consistent place in the pantheons of literature and other media, works of horror have striven to disturb and taunt their audiences from as early as the 18th century. Readers have always loved to be titillated and terrified, and classic horror novels have offered that opportunity for centuries. Those who love modern horror authors, such as Stephen King, may be interested in exploring the earlier literary works that inspired and presaged modern horror, forming the foundation for what the fans of fright have come to crave.

Topics in the list below range from haunted houses, dead bodies, blood-soaked vampires, unholy creations, and otherworldly monsters. From as early as Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, published in 1818, to Ray Bradburys 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, they have inspired countless retellings, as well as countless horror novel-to-movie adaptations. Still, the original novels feature creatures and questions that continue to be explored in todays most haunting works.

The vampire subgenre has been at the forefront of horror for over 100 years, and the myths of undead creatures living off of human blood go back countless years further. The best vampire movies ever made are, mostly, incredibly varied. There’s a whole lot of great “Dracula” movies out there, sure, but also art-house nightmares, mainstream action movies, silly comedies, Neo-westerns, heartwarming romances and more. And if you ask us, these are the very, very best.

(Film Arts Guild) “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” (1922)

F.W. Murnau’s eerie silent classic is 100 years old, and it still has the power to shock and horrify. Telling an extremely plagiarized version of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” – Stoker’s estate successfully sued, and nearly had every single copy of “Nosferatu” destroyed – the film stars Max Schreck as the verminous Count Orlok, who moves from his haunted castle to Germany, and brings a supernatural plague along with him.

"Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was Carmilla!" Following their widely praised reimagining of Le Fanu’s gothic novella, writer Amy Chu and artist Soo Lee return to their "tale of obsession, vampires and Chinese folklore" in Carmilla: The Last Vampire Hunter. The new graphic novel, with lettering by Sal Cipriano, will be released in July 2024 and we have all the details, along with an exclusive preview!

“Amy and Soo deliver a fascinating story about the unyielding supernatural sway of the enigmatic vampire Carmilla, while exploring family heritage, cultural identity and historic and present-day anti-Asian racism,” said editor, Karen Berger. “It’s a thrill to be working with them again on this haunting and captivating sequel!”

“Excited to continue the story of Athena and Carmilla, this time on the West Coast, and to introduce a whole new world of pan-Asian supernatural characters to the readers,” said Chu. “I hope with the Last Vampire,...

Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic Carmilla has been adapted for the screen on numerous occasions, but few have demonstrated lasting appeal like Hammer’s version. The first of the studio’s Karnstein series, in which a family of vampires disguise themselves so as to prey upon humans by the simple means of anagramming their names (a technique pioneered by another such family in 1943’s Son Of Dracula), it captures something of the same energy as the novella in that they both pushed boundaries in their time and, despite being written by men, portrayed lesbian desire (if not actual sex) convincingly enough to become important to many women at a time when very little similarly themed material was available in the mainstream.

That lack of actual sex has been a key factor in the success of numerous vampire stories over the past century and a half, enabling them to explore all manner of sexual taboos.

In 1866, Gustave Courbet painted The Origin of the World, a portrait of a woman’s nude torso and exposed vagina that still possesses the capacity to shock the straitlaced. On one level, the painting proves pretty definitively that there’s a fine line between a timeless work of art and a beaver shot. On another, it provides a convenient precursor for the cinematic sensibility of Spanish maverick Jess Franco, who seemingly never met a pussy he didn’t want to zoom unabashedly in on. This holds especially true for Lorna the Exorcist, wherein the female genitalia play a significant thematic as well as aesthetic role.

For what it’s worth, the film bears only the slightest passing resemblance to the William Friedkin classic that it’s ostensibly ripping off. Both films focus on a character located on the cusp between childhood and womanhood (though here she’s a bit of...

Based on a 19th century Gothic novella by Aleksey Tolstoy, The Vourdalak is the debut feature film from French writer-director Adrien Beau. It tells of the Marquis d'Urfé (Kacey Mottet Klein), an emissary of the King of France who seeks shelter with a family when he becomes lost travelling through Eastern Europe. The family are anxiously awaiting the return of their patriarch, Gorcha, who has gone to capture an outlaw. Before leaving, he forewarned his family that if he does not return within six days, he has been killed and, if he reappears, they must refuse him entry to the house as he has become a vourdalak; a walking corpse returned from the grave seeking the blood of its loved ones...

Prior to the rise of the literary vampire, beginning with Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, and John Polidori's The Vampyre, Eastern...

The Devil's Hour is a mind-bending British thriller series with time travel, parallel universes, and alter egos. The series has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has been renewed for two more seasons. The small but talented cast includes actors from Dceu, Doctor Who, and other prestigious TV shows, creating a stellar ensemble.

The cast of The Devil’s Hour features a group of prolific actors with some notable titles in their filmographies. The Devil’s Hour is a British thriller series for Prime Video that premiered its first season in October 2022. The series follows Lucy Chambers (Jessica Raine) a social worker struggling with family issues, relationship problems, and insomnia on top of everything. Every night, Lucy wakes up at 3:33 Am, and she soon begins experiencing strange phenomena like her mother speaking to empty chairs and odd occurrences happening in her home. It’s a mind-bending series filled with time travel,...

The world of horror cinema may be more saturated than ever with slashers like Freddy Krueger or stories of possession like The Exorcist. But before these types of terrors were brought to life, the foundations of horror came in monsters that plagued the world of folklore and literature long before the moving picture. One of the best examples of this was vampires, who started in the book Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu and later made famous in Bram Stoker's Dracula. These creatures of the night represented the power and terror that came from the unseen enemy as they looked human but were often monsters when it was time to feed.

Vampires endured for over a century, and movies like Nosferatu and Dracula helped establish an etiquette surrounding these creatures, whether their ugly side was visible or just under the surface. But 1997's Blade took things to a whole new...

In the expansive world of the vampire romance, one series remains criminally underrated in the pop culture sphere: A Discovery of Witches. The appeal of a romantic entanglement with immortal bloodsuckers has existed for decades onscreen and on the page, whether it was the tangibly queer subtext-almost-text of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (re-envisioned in 2014 as a web-series with an openly lesbian love story), Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire novel in 1976 (re-envisioned in 2022), Frank Langella's explicitly romantic Dracula film (1979), or both of Buffy Summers' (Sarah Michelle Geller) nocturnal boyfriends. Supernatural romance fans are spoiled for choice, especially after the early-2000s popularity boom responsible for Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries brought the sub-genre into mainstream awareness — unabashedly so. Swooning over the vampire bad boy was no longer an indulgence kept within specific communities.

That’s how things ought to work — give this reviewer Exactly the great disc he wants to see and wait for the flood of praise. This Italian-French gothic gem can hold its own in the Eurohorror Renaissance of 1960, with fine direction, an attractive cast, a seductive heroine/villainess, and lush color cinematography that turns a Flemish windmill into a young lover’s Garden of Horrors. It’s a period picture with fairy tale overtones, atrocious medical crimes and a sensual romance that leans heavily on squeamish Victorian taboos . . . yes, it’s irresistible. So is the lavish presentation, one of this disc label’s very best. Call it Holiday Horror, perhaps.

Mill of the Stone Women

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1960 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 90, 95, 96 min. / Street Date December 14, 2021 / Available from Arrow Video / 59.95

Starring Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Herbert Böhme, Wolfgang Preiss, Dany Carrel, Liana Orfei, Marco Gugliemi.

Cinematography Pier Ludovico Pavoni

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Market slate includes rom-com At Last, musical dramedy Seriously Red.

Arclight Films has announced at the virtual EFM a French sale on Andrea Riseborough thriller Possessor.

Gary Hamilton and his team have closed an all-rights deal with The Jokers Films on Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller.

Christopher Abbott, Sean Bean, and Jennifer Jason Leigh also star in Possessor, a Sundance 2020 selection that opened in the US through Neon last October and won the grand prix award at Gerardmer International Fantastic Film Festival in France in January.

Riseborough plays a corporate agent who uses brain-implant technology to get others to commit assassinations.

New Indie

Big month for Charlie Plummer, as the young star of “Lean on Pete” has lead roles in two critically-acclaimed films making their way to DVD and Blu-ray: “Words on Bathroom Walls” (Lionsgate) stars Plummer as a teenager overcoming a mental illness diagnosis to chase his dreams of becoming a chef. The drama’s impressive ensemble includes Taylor Russell (“Waves”), Andy Garcia, AnnaSophia Robb, Beth Grant, Molly Parker and Walton Goggins. In the YA adaptation “Spontaneous” (Paramount Home Entertainment), Plummer and Katherine Langford (“13 Reasons Why”) play high school seniors who manage to find love despite the fact that many of their classmates seem to be unexpectedly exploding.

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The team behind the global anime smash “Your Name” returns with another transcendent love story in “Weathering With You” (Gkids/Shout Factory), an epic saga of rain, young love and potato-chip fried rice that includes the English-language dub that...

Exclusive: Cameras are already rolling in Northern Rivers, Australia on Seriously Red, the musical dramedy that reps the first feature from Rose Byrne’s Dollhouse Pictures. While Dollhouse launched five years ago, and the Seriously Red screenplay by Krew Boylan has been in the fold, we can tell you that Byrne will be part of the newly announced ensemble cast along with her Emmy-winning partner Bobby Cannavale and Daniel Webber. Arclight Films has boarded to handle worldwide distribution rights with Gracie Otto (The Last Impresario) directing.

In the rowdy and rambunctious musical comedy, Red (played by Boylan) is at a crossroads in her life. A vivacious and hilarious redhaired woman grappling with high expectations and low self-esteem, she pours herself a cup of ambition and trades her 9 to 5 career in real estate for a life under the spotlight as a Dolly Parton impersonator.

Reimagining of Sheridan Le Fanu’s 19th-century vampire novella will screen at virtual market.

Arclight Films has bulked up its AFM sales slate with international rights excluding the UK, Australia and Germany to gothic horror and Sitges, Edinburgh and Chicago selection Carmilla.

The solo directorial debut of writer-director Emily Harris stars newcomers Hannah Rae and Devrim Lingnau alongside Jessica Raine, Tobias Menzies and Greg Wise, both of whom were recently featured in Netflix’s The Crown.

Carmilla will screen to buyers at the virtual market next week and is a reimagining of Sheridan Le Fanu’s 19th-century vampire novella of the same name.

The film is released in the UK today (October 16).

Emily Harris’ UK feature Carmilla has secured distribution deals in Germany and Australia, ahead of the film’s UK release today (October 16).

Busch Media has acquired distribution rights for Germany, with Icon Australia picking it up for Australia. Deals were secured via producers Lizzie Brown and Emily Precious of Bird Flight Films, with the support of Sarah Arnott of Zero Gravity Management.

Carmilla is released in 30 UK cinemas today through Republic Film Distribution; Film Movement released the film on virtual platforms in the US during the Covid-19-induced lockdown.

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Studiocanal’s psychological horror film “Saint Maud” bowed in second position at the U.K. and Ireland box office, with £263,433, according to final figures released by Comscore.

Warner Bros.’ “Tenet,” directed by Christopher Nolan, stayed at pole position for the seventh consecutive weekend, collecting £296,049. The film now has a running total of £16,563,616 in the territory.

The countries’ exhibition sector has taken body blows over the past week with some cinemas in Ireland closed due to coronavirus precautions and the giant Cineworld group shuttering its 1,180 screens across both countries as a response to the postponement of James Bond film “No Time to Die,” and several other keenly anticipated blockbusters.

The sector was also hit with the Vue and Odeon chains deciding to operate several of their sites on weekends only.

The re-release of cult Japanese Manga “Akira,” released by National Amusements, drew in punters and collected £201,124 in third position.

In its sixth weekend,...

Horror films are fascinating for what they reveal about the cultures which created them. The history of queer representation within the genre extends well beyond film as a medium, seen in literary works like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) and, of course, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), which have literally shaped horror films as they’ve always been known. If we understand that the monster is a symbol or metaphor for social anxiety, then the vampire is perhaps most notoriously queer. Nevertheless, the subject of queerness in horror extends well beyond this one …...