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Tilman Singer’s eerie, shape-shifting horror Cuckoo lands on 4K Ultra HD from 14 April, giving viewers another chance to experience one of 2024’s most disquieting and unconventional genre offerings. Presented by Dazzler Media, the disc release brings Singer’s chilling vision home in pristine clarity, loaded with behind-the-scenes extras and interviews that dive deeper into the blood-slicked labyrinth of family, identity and biological horror that made it a hit on the festival circuit.

Starring Euphoria breakout Hunter Schafer in her first leading film role, Cuckoo introduces us to Gretchen, a grieving teenager who relocates from the United States to a resort town in the German Alps, following her father’s decision to help develop a luxury hotel overseen by the mysterious Herr König, played with unnerving poise by Dan Stevens. But what begins as a strained family reunion slowly morphs into something far stranger, and more grotesque.

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When you click play, stark images of trees, water bodies, spring-laden countryside, and a scattered coloring stump appear as a girl sings a prayer. While colors often signify happiness and joy, Carol Morley has other plans. Like leaves that fall from tree branches as spring approaches, The Falling gets darker with every angel that falls prey to an unanswered question. It’s staggering how she manages to showcase a wide range of emotions, all surrounded by one truly chaotic entity—based mostly on lies, or maybe not?

There are films that make you feel happy—this isn’t one of those. There are films that make you sad—this isn’t one of those either. And there are films that connect with you—this isn’t that kind of film. And yet, it feels essential. Carol Morley’s The Falling has cemented a fact in my head: “I’m going...

With its 1970s setting, Starve Acre is a modern folk horror that leans into its inevitable comparisons with films like The Wicker Man and Don’t Look Now. Even so, Starve Acre becomes more a litmus test of dread – for audiences and characters alike – than a formulaic folk horror. Where folk horror films like Midsommar invoke a kind of thrill in piecing together what tapestries and paintings will come to mean, Starve Acre forces viewers to see it coming and to sit in that unease. Director Daniel Kokotajlo supports his environment of disquietude with still shots of Yorkshire’s beautiful, but oppressive landscapes between the slow, deliberate camerawork that punctuates the story.

You know those moments when you feel something creeping behind you, but when you turn, there’s nothing there? That sense of “something’s wrong” that’s just hard to shake? Well, some films do just that—they get under your skin, like a slow burn that’ll leave you with that nagging sense of dread long after the credits roll. It’s not just about jump scares, folks; it’s about the kind of psychological disturbance that keeps you up at night, staring at your bedroom door, wondering if you locked it properly.

Maika Monroe, Lili Sepe, and Daniel Zovatto in It Follows (2014) | Credit: The Weinstein Company

These movies? They’ll make your mind a haunted house. The tension? It’s like someone’s whispering right behind you… but when you look, all you see is your own reflection. Yeah, it’s That kind of unsettling.

So grab your blanket,...

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The musician-to-actor pipeline is nothing new, but few films are as notorious as Performance, the Mick Jagger vehicle that was so appalling to Warner Bros. that they shelved it for 18 months. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll are just the start — the gritty gangster flick has plenty of violence, too.

In the intervening half-century since its release it’s become a cult classic, and to certify its film buff bona fides,...

Crawlspace will be released on Blu-ray on March 4 from Kino Lorber.

The 1986 horror-thriller made its HD debut back in 2013 via Shout Factory but has since gone out of print.

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Originally distributed by Empire Pictures, the film is written and directed by David Schmoeller.

Psychotic landlord Karl Gunther keeps a close watch on his tenants. Spying on his female renters from an elaborate network of crawlspaces, he lures new victims into his torture chamber with an incessant “tap, tap, tap!” Can a new prospective renter stop this apartment building’s rapid turnover rate… or will the fiendish Gunther continue to make a killing?

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Though the summer movie season of 1988 would not officially begin until the May 20 opening of Ron Howard and George Lucas' "Willow," movie buffs hungry for spectacle after enduring an unusually weak spring (led by Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice" and Oscar-winning holdovers like "The Last Emperor" and "Moonstruck") were eagerly looking forward weeks in advance of this kickoff and wondering which of the studios' big-ticket offerings would satisfy as wholly as "The Untouchables," "RoboCop," and "Predator" had done the previous year. Amid the glut of mostly unpromising sequels, there were two seemingly sure things (Robert Zemeckis' "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and the Eddie Murphy vehicle "Coming to America") and a smattering of originals toplined by some of the biggest stars in the industry.

And then there was "Die Hard."

As you likely know, John McTiernan's classic was initially viewed by some as a looming folly based on 20th Century Fox...

Romance for indie filmmakers Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer blossomed in the most unexpected of places — as they shot their 2020 debut feature Violation, a relentlessly violent and gory revenge drama set in cottage-country Canada.

“After making our first film, which really dealt with trauma and was very dark, very painful to make and really delved into the dark recesses of our minds, we wanted to make something that was about love,” Sims-Fewer tells The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Honey Bunch, their sophomore feature, having its world premiere in Berlin on Feb. 18.

In their first feature, which bowed at the Toronto Film Festival, Sims-Fewer played a young woman in an unhappy marriage who, with her sister and their husbands, stays at a secluded cottage where unspoken traumas and upsetting sexual violence are gradually revealed.

But on Honey Bunch, the Canadian filmmakers deliberately toned down the dark, bloody material of their first feature.

Warning! This article contains descriptions of violence and abuse.A good romance movie is often a little controversial, as depictions of love onscreen are told through metaphor or involve extreme situations for the sake of drama. However, just because a film is controversial doesn't mean that it will age badly. Some of the older movies that feature taboo love stories or intense sexual situations have become cult classics with time. How audiences and critics respond to an onscreen relationship that could be deemed controversial is always impacted by the story, the performances, and the direction. Additionally, some romance movies tackle these subjects to make a comment on them.

While this isn't always the case, overwhelmingly, romance movies are called out when they have particularly graphic sex scenes. What audiences and critics deem graphic has changed over time, as the boundaries of what can be shown onscreen have evolved with cultural...

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A major highlight of any filmgoing year, To Save and Project returns.

IFC Center

A Donald Sutherland retrospective includes Klute, Fellini’s Casanova, Don’t Look Now, and Mash; Crash, Battle Royale, and The Lost Boys show late.

Anthology Film Archives

Blackout 1973 features films by Sembène, Bill Gunn, Mambéty and more; Essential Cinema runs the gamut from Laurel and Hardy to Jonas Mekas’ Walden.

Roxy Cinema

Emma Roberts has curated Thirteen on 35mm and Mysterious Skin; Amadeus shows on Saturday and Sunday.

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AI: From Metropolis to Ex Machina continues, featuring Terminator 2, Blade Runner, Videodrome, and Ghost in the Shell; Wall-e screens on Sunday.

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See It Big! Let It Snow brings The Gold Rush on 35mm, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, The Shining, and more.

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Trash Humpers, The Bling Ring,...

The best horror films not only try to sink their hooks into you during the entire three acts of their runtime, but they also go for a wallop of an ending, so you're stunned as you turn off the TV or walk out of the theater. For example, Smile 2 was one of 2024's best horror films, but as scary as it was, it's that final image which stays with us the most. One of horror's most messed up, shocking finales goes to Martyrs, a 2008 French film, with a last scene that'll make your jaw drop as it sends a chill down your spine. Neither of these more modern examples can compare with 1973's Don't Look Now, starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. This Nicolas Roeg film is a haunting story about loss, all building to an ending that will make you jump out of your seat and leave you feeling utterly hopeless.

Welp, it’s January. That special time of year where everyone is simultaneously recovering from the holidays and trying to kick off the new year by putting their best foot forward. TV shows that have been on break will soon return and mid-season premieres quickly follow thereafter, but for film, January is often looked at as slow period for new releases, with offerings like “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera,” Leigh Whannell’s “Wolf Man,” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence” being unveiled. Films that have had awards-qualifying runs like Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” and Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl” will also expand wider, boosting their profiles in time for Oscar voting, but generally, there’s not much going on to excite the average movie-goer this month. So what better time to say, “Out with the new, in with the old!”

Repertory theaters in New York and Los Angeles have...

Paramount has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows and live sports coming to the Paramount+ streaming service in January. The Paramount Plus January 2025 schedule includes CBS winter premieres, Henry Danger: The Movie, the NFL on CBS, Star Trek: Section 31, and more.

Get ready for an exciting lineup of CBS winter premieres this January. Paramount+ subscribers can stream the new series Hollywood Squares and Watson, plus the return of The Price Is Right at Night, Raid the Cage and NCIS: Sydney.

Star Trek: Section 31

The new year brings new adventures on Paramount+, including the premiere of the action-packed original movie Star Trek: Section 31, starring Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, and Henry Danger: The Movie, based on the hit Nickelodeon live-action series.

Football fans can also catch all the action on the field with the NFL on CBS‘s coverage of the NFL Playoffs, including Super Wild Card and AFC Divisional Round matchups,...

Year after year, one genre continues to pull audiences into the lobbies of cinemas around the world. While its stars might not often be up for major awards, they are heroes to the fandoms who have their own terms for the best in the biz. With so many subgenres, horror has something for everyone. Although directors like Peter Medak and Nicolas Roeg began exploring the sub-horror-genre of family trauma decades ago in their films The Changeling and Don’t Look Now, respectively, the last decade has ushered in a brand-new lineup of directors exploring close-to-home themes. In 2018, Ari Aster made his feature-length directorial debut with one of these projects, a movie that will stick with viewers long after the credits roll. Are you filled with intrigue? Well, luckily, Aster’s breakthrough pairing with A24, Hereditary, is coming to one of the most popular streamers, as it will celebrate its Netflix debut...

Airell Anthony Hayles is no stranger to the world of horror. The British filmmaker, producer, and writer has steadily carved out a space for himself in the genre, delivering a mix of thought-provoking narratives and imaginative frights. With a degree in Theatre and Film Studies from Goldsmiths College, University of London, Airell’s passion for storytelling and genre cinema has led him to work on projects as varied as Heckle, starring Steve Guttenberg and Dani Dyer, and Werewolf Santa, a darkly comedic twist on holiday folklore.

His latest project, Advent, premieres at FrightFest Halloween before its digital release on 25 November 2024. The film blends supernatural horror with contemporary themes, drawing inspiration from the sinister “Blue Whale Challenge” and placing its protagonist—a social media influencer—at the mercy of a cursed advent calendar. It’s a concept that embodies Airell’s approach to horror: merging unsettling modern realities with classic storytelling tropes.

In 1971, celebrated director Alan J. Pakula unleashed one of the grittiest films of that (decisive) decade: the neo-noir thriller Klute. Starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, and Roy Scheider, Klute concerns itself with the exploits of a high-end call girl who slowly gets wrapped up in a missing persons case when an out-of-state detective arrives in New York City and requests her help tracking down a former client.

Practically the definition of 70s cinema, Klute became the first entry in what would later come to be known as Alan J. Pakula's "paranoia trilogy," which also includes 1974's The Parallax View, followed by 1976's All the President's Men. But the film's legacy is far more extensive than just its director's filmography. Klute has also proven to be an extremely influential film for an entirely new generation of filmmakers, directors like Matt Reeves, who, time and time again, has pointed to...

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I think it’s fair to say that if you poll any film critic or historian and asked them what were the five most notable films to have come out of this country last century, they would count Brief Encounter, A Matter of Life and Death, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Lawrence of Arabia and The Third Man. As such then, it is always a welcome opportunity to return to any one of the gilded quintet, particularly if they have been painstakingly restored to their former glory, as well as top-loaded with reams of informative and educational bonus material, of which the extras here are an embarrassment of riches. In short, released to celebrate the film’s 75th anniversary as part of StudioCanal’s Vintage Classics Collection, this 4K Uhd package is a gift to film buffs: the picture quality is so sharp you can...

There is something about the dark fantasy movie genre that just isn't easily replicated. While many a fantasy movie has transported audiences to new and expansive worlds with epic stories of big adventures, historically the genre has also been limited by both technology and budgets that restrain movies from achieving the potential of the stories being told.

The dark fantasy genre, however, often tells smaller scale stories inspired by fairy tales, focusing on eerie atmosphere, stellar creature and set design rather than VFX spectacle. Still, many dark fantasy movies have fantastic special effects that feel as grand and epic as big budget blockbusters. Even in animation, the dark fantasy genre has delivered some of the best and scariest works in the medium.

From the apogee of the genre in the 80s, to modern examples, this list pins down the 10 best dark fantasy movies out there.

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Ryan Murphy has heard the questions about the naming conventions of his various FX series, but he doesn’t see the validity in them.

The TV mogul tells Deadline that he would “strongly disagree” with suggestions that Grotesquerie should have been under the American Horror Story banner, or that Aaron Hernandez’s story would’ve been better suited as a new installment of American Crime Story rather than the first in a new anthology series, American Sports Story.

“Grotesquerie has nothing in common with American Horror Story. It just does not. I think it’s the difference between doing Don’t Look Now and Halloween would could never have fit into that show. It was never considered for that. It’s a much different animal,” he said of the new horror series starring Niecy Nash, which revealed a huge turn in the story that Murphy and FX Chief John Landgraf also discussed with Deadline.

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It's possible that the best "Star Trek" movie of all time could be the one that never existed. Before Gene Roddenberry's hokey but heartfelt '60s sci-fi series made the leap to the big screen with a series of wildly inconsistent movies beginning in 1979, the franchise nearly went in an entirely different direction. If not for a studio exec who hated science fiction, and creative differences in the writers' room, the first "Star Trek" film would have been "Planet of the Titans," an incredibly ambitious project that was developed over 7 months before being shelved for good, according to the book "The Fifty-Year Mission."

The first "Star Trek" oral history book from Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman, subtitled "The First 25 Years," sets the record straight on many moments from "Trek" history that have become the stuff of legends, but...

At The Streamable, we love watching movies and TV for free, especially if we don’t have to sit through ads. Tubi is great, but seeing an ad for car insurance in the middle of your movie tends to kill the vibe. As we race to Halloween, we looked up all the best scary movies and found that a huge number were streaming ad-free on Kanopy, which is free if your library participates. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Hoopla is another free streamer that just added a major horror partner.

Your library probably partners with either Kanopy or Hoopla (or both!), giving you an unexpectedly great package of ad-free entertainment.

Use Kanopy for the Best Horror Selection

My jaw dropped when I saw how many A+ horror movies were available ad-free on Kanopy. You can see 48(!) of Metacritic’s best-reviewed horror films.

Kanopy gives you recent horror masterpieces like “Hereditary,...

Spoopy Season is upon us, dear readers, and any cineaste worth their weight in bone matter is likely scouring the world's many streaming services looking for the best fright flicks available. Most casual horror fans may be content to idly re-watch well-trodden classics like "Halloween," while more enterprising gorehounds will be studiously studying the carefully curated films on Shudder. The jaded, more experienced fright fans, however, will require stronger coffee to get their fear fix, and those brave souls may dive face-first into the overstuffed trough of Night Flight or Eternal Family, looking for oddities that the average soul cannot stand. Are you going to watch a gentle film like "Hocus Pocus" this October, or are you the type to try out "Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell?"

We can say for sure that actor Kevin Bacon, a great actor with impeccable taste, is an aficionado of the genre and likes...

As we’re well into October, I’m sure plenty of you have already watched more than a few horror movies (as if you need an excuse), but it’s always fun to see what other folks recommend for the spooky season. Kevin Bacon, who I believe has appeared in a few horror movies, took to Instagram to share a list of twenty of his personal favourites.

Audition Don’t Look Now One Cut of the Dead Dawn of the Dead (1978) Shaun of the Dead 28 Days Later Get Out A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night Let The Right One In X Pearl MaXXXine The Witch The Love Witch The Blair Witch Project The Descent Slither Midsommar Martyrs Hereditary Smile Stir of Echoes

A quality list, and as you can see, Bacon appears in a few of them. Bacon’s most recent horror movie was MaXXXine, which appears on the list alongside X and Pearl.

Everyone’s got horror on the mind as we inch closer to Halloween, and that list of “everyone” most definitely includes Kevin Bacon, who has damn sure made his mark on the horror genre over the years. From appearing in the original Friday the 13th to starring in this year’s MaXXXine, Bacon’s horror pedigree is strong – and he’s a genre fan through and through.

Bacon notes in one of the bonus features for MaXXXine, “I’m a huge horror film fan.” And he’s building on that statement over on Twitter today, sharing some of his personal favorites.

“I love October because it’s all about apples and leaves changing and pumpkins, but it’s also about horror movies,” he begins the video. “So here are 20 of my favorite horror movies in no particular order.” The list naturally includes some films the Bacon family has appeared in,...

Scaring Up A Big Win

Jon Bell’s “The Moogai” was Saturday named winner of the Film Prize at Western Australia’s CinefestOZ festival. With a cash award of A$100,000, it is one of the richest film festival prizes in the world.

Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby. But what should be a joyous time of their lives becomes sinister when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit that she is convinced is trying to take her baby. Fergus, can’t see it but desperately wants to believe her. He does not know if the child-stealing spirit real or is Sarah is in fact the biggest threat to the safety of their family. The film stars Shari Sebbens and Meyne Wyatt.

It is produced by Kristina Ceyton, Mitchell Stanely and Samantha Jennings and coproduced by Alex White. International sales are handled by the U.

Director Daniel Kokotajlo follows up his 2017 debut Apostasy with a radical shift that no-one could have predicted. Adapted from the Andrew Michael Hurley titular novel, Starve Acre trades the religious fervour of Apostasy for the folkloric kind, though the stark intimacy of Kokotajlo’s restrained filmmaking remains, with mostly solid results.

The film is disorienting from the outset, rupturing an idyllic day out for archeologist Richard (Matt Smith) and his wife Juliette (Morfydd Clark). The couple are picture perfect: lounging against a tree, his head on her lap, until their son Owen (Arthur Shaw) is caught red-handed after gouging the eye from a pony. The family’s move to Richard’s family home in rural Yorkshire proves not to be the salve for Owen’s ailing health that they hoped it to be — in fact, Owen claims to hear the voice of the same spirit that has been haunting Richard since childhood.

Venice has got its sexy back. Erotica of all varieties — gay, straight, kinky and theoretical — is on glorious display at this year’s Venice Film Festival, with plenty of sizzling action onscreen and little of it gratuitous.

Two of the, em, hottest festival titles this year — Halina Reijn’s Babygirl and the TV series Disclaimer from Alfonso Cuarón — open with orgasms. Babygirl also climaxes to a close, with star Nicole Kidman, playing a tech manager who discovers a taste for Bdsm, in a state of near or total undress throughout much of the movie.

Queer, an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ autobiographical novel, and the latest from Challengers and Call Me by Your Name filmmaker Luca Guadagnino — a director apparently on a one-man mission to bring back sexy cinema — stars Daniel Craig as a drug-addicted American expat in Mexico, circa 1950, who begins to obsess over, and pursue, a younger, bi-curious navy sailor,...

The 1973 horror, Don't Look Now, was overshadowed by a controversial scene that has made the film infamous. Directed by Nicolas Roeg and based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now tells a chilling story of a grieving couple who experience mysterious things after meeting a clairvoyant woman. The horror movie received critical acclaim upon its release and has become one of the best horror movies about grief.

Although the film which starred Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie is a masterpiece, the notorious scene overshadowed the best parts of the movie, such as its core themes and forward-thinking portrayal of intimacy. Despite the controversial scene, Don't Look Now's shocking ending, inventive editing style, and incredible quality have earned its place as one of the best movies of its era. The horror film is not only highly regarded in the horror genre, but it has a 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes,...

“Blink Twice” opens with a blurry close-up shot of a frog, which then comes into glistening focus. The sound is eerie; the image is sinister, fascinating, mysterious and trippy. That describes the movie as well. “Blink Twice” is the first feature directed by Zoë Kravitz, who also co-wrote it (with E.T. Feigenbaum), and it’s a post-#MeToo feminist party-girl nightmare thriller that’s been made with an unusual sense of intimacy. Kravitz, the veteran actor, doesn’t rely on the standard medium shot/Pov pedestrian film grammar. She composes the movie out of vibrant close-ups, using each shot to tell a story, drawing us into the center of an encounter, so that we’re staring at it and experiencing it at the same time. Her technique is riveting; this is the work of a born filmmaker.

I wouldn’t call “Blink Twice” a horror movie, but it’s rooted in some pretty horrifying things.

With the passing of Donald Sutherland, I was looking through his catalogue for stuff I hadn’t seen yet as I like to look at the entire catalogue to find some hidden gems. What I was reminded of while looking was his stellar horror output over the years. Fallen, The Puppet Masters, Don’t Look Now, Virus, the Salem’s Lot TV miniseries, and of course Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors are all fun to great but for my money, his turn in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (watch it Here) and really the movie in general, is his best stuff. After buying the wonderful 4K from Kino Lorber and rewatching it, I’m also ready to crown it as the best San Francisco based horror movie too. While it can feel every bit as long as it’s 1 hour and 55-minute runtime, it uses that slow build tension to...

A mere few years ago, the notion that a subgenre as strange and specific as folk horror becoming overexposed seemed unlikely. But with the one-two punch of Robert Eggers’ The Witch (2016) and Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) – films that brought more modern concerns surrounding gender dynamics and romantic/familial relationships into the genre – and the work and dedication of film scholar Kier-La Janisse (whose 2021 documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror might well be the final word on the subject), stories of pagan cult sacrifice and shape-shifting bog witches have become practically mainstream in a world as technologically detached from its primeval roots as its ever been. Enter Starve Acre, an adaptation of the book by Andrew Michael Hurley which started as a bogus “lost novel” supposedly written in 1972 and originally published by Dead Ink Books attributed to a “Jonathan Buckley.” Hurley himself has been a force...

The legendary actor, Donald Sutherland, has passed on and even though his passing is something to mourn, his legacy will live on and that is something to be most grateful for. Early life Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1935. Sutherland worked in several different jobs before beginning his acting career, one of them being a radio DJ in his youth. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in engineering and was almost set on becoming an engineer. However, he also graduated with a degree in drama, and he chose arts over applied science. And aren’t we all so glad that he did? 1960s: Career starter Sutherland's first roles were very small parts in films such as the 1965 horror film ‘Dr. Terror's House of Horrors’, starring Christopher Lee. He also appeared on the small screen doing episodes of shows such as...

Writer/Director Daniel Kokotajlo adheres to classic folk horror convention with Starve Acre, based on the book by Andrew Michael Hurly. It’s not just the 1970s rural setting or spiritual locals that call to mind foundational films like The Wicker Man but the methodical unfurling of its folklore and escalating horror. It makes for a stunning throwback feature grounded by two compelling leads but one too narratively and thematically sparse to make much of an impact.

Starve Acre introduces Richard, an archeologist who’s recently moved his wife Juliette and son Owen (Arthur Shaw) to his childhood home in the bucolic British countryside for work. Juliette, unaware that Richard’s memories of the home aren’t happy ones, feels that the move will be good for young Owen. Never mind that Richard spends most of his waking hours obsessing over his late father’s artifacts and collections, all related...

Horror movies are a dime a dozen, so it's imperative that we celebrate the good ones when they arrive. Regrettably, audiences often miss out on a novel new entry to the genre due to bad or misleading marketing, poorly timed release dates, or an inability to grasp a unique concept, causing a potential blockbuster to flame out at the box office. On many occasions, such pictures will earn solid reviews from critics and go on to achieve cult status thanks to solid word-of-mouth. In other instances, however, many impeccably made horror pictures needlessly fade into obscurity after bombing in theaters and never find the success they deserve.

Well, I'm here to put an end to the madness. I've scoured the World Wide Web and located a handful of horror box office bombs with great RottenTomatoes scores in dire need of more attention. Some of these entries, like John Carpenter's classic "The Thing,...

When it comes to undisputed cinematic classics, there are several films that have cemented their standing amid the greatest ever made. "Citizen Kane," "The Godfather," "Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia." What's that? You've never heard of "Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia?" I'm not sure what you philistines have been watching but I'll have you know this short film currently holds a prestigious 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Yes, the website that has made a business out of slapping percentage scores on art has decreed that "Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia" is one of a handful of films worthy of the elusive "perfect" score. That means it sits alongside James Cameron's seminal 1984 effort "The Terminator" and Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 masterpiece "Stalker," both of which also hold 100% ratings and coincidentally are the only two perfect sci-fi movies ever made according to Rt (along with two of the "Toy Story" movies).

Why is any of this important?...

A Donald Sutherland-led film that's over five decades old has resurfaced as a streaming hit. Originally released in 1973, the film found a new audience on streaming shortly after the passing of Sutherland.

Per Screen Rant, Reelgood's streaming data shows Don't Look Now ranking in the No. 8 spot on the list of the most popular films on streaming in the United States for the week of June 20 - 26. This renewed interest in the film comes more than five decades after Don't Look Now was originally released in theaters. The film, which is also free to stream on Pluto TV, follows the passing of lead star Donald Sutherland, who died on June 20 at the age of 88.

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Donald Sutherland was a champion of the silver screen for decades and movies like The Dirty Dozen and Don't Look Now helped define his career.

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There's a new hit movie on the streaming charts, and it's over 50 years old. In the wake of the tragic death of legendary actor Donald Sutherland on June 20, one of his most critically acclaimed films, Don't Look Now, has resurfaced on screens across the U.S. and, according to Reelgood's movie rankings, became the eighth most-streamed title for the week of June 20-26. It managed to surpass current hits like the Brat Pack documentary Brats and Netflix's Under Paris while falling just behind Godzilla Minus One and Dune: Part Two. Moreover, it's also not on one of the major streaming platforms, instead calling the ad-supported streamer Pluto TV home.

The Oscars are known for recognizing the best movies yearly, but sometimes they get it wrong. It took legendary director Martin Scorsese decades to finally get a win at the Academy Awards. Meanwhile, Stanley Kubrick, writer-director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, never won an Oscar in his esteemed career. It shows that no matter how good a movie is, there is always the chance of being snubbed.

The list of movies that deserve Oscar nominations throughout cinematic history is enormous. So many iconic movies have been ignored by the Academy, but there could be many reasons for that. Genre bias is regularly brought up by fans as the Academy tends to look down at horrors, westerns and sci-fi movies, to list just a few. But for some movies, it's absolutely inexplicable that they didn't receive a single nomination.

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Don't Look Now ranks eighth on a new streaming movie popularity chart. Donald Sutherland's passing has encouraged viewers to revisit the 1973 horror-thriller. Don't Look Now was controversial at the time of its release and in the decades afterward due to a particularly graphic sex scene.

Don't Look Now has become an unlikely streaming success. Directed by Nicolas Roeg, Don't Look Now was released in 1973 and tells the story of a married couple, still reeling from the death of their daughter, who encounter a clairvoyant woman carrying an ominous warning. The film, which stars Julie Christie and the late Donald Sutherland, earned positive reviews from critics and currently sports a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Now, Reelgood reveals that Don't Look Now ranks as the eighth most popular movie on streaming in the U.S. for the week of June 20 26. The streaming success of the 51-year-old movie, which is available on PlutoTV,...

Veteran actor Donald Sutherland passed away in 2024, leaving behind a legacy of excellent performances. Sutherland enjoyed a late-career success with his role as the villainous President Snow in the Hunger Games movies. His scenes opposite Jennifer Lawrence in Catching Fire were some of the franchise's best. A consummate character actor, Sutherland's best movies were horror films, with Don't Look Now and Invasion of the Body Snatchers standing out as particular high points on his impressive filmography.

The sad news of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland's passing serves as a reminder of his incredible talents. A veteran of the stage and screen, Sutherland was the kind of performer who was impossible to define, carrying the mantle of a true character actor while also being one of the most recognizable faces in cinema for decades. While it is tragic that he is gone and that fans will not get the chance to see new performances from him,...

Don't Look Now's iconic ending features a chilling dwarf killer, adding to the film's psychological horror. The reveal of the dwarf killer in Don't Look Now is a shocking and unforgettable moment, leaving audiences unsettled. The dwarf killer's unexpected appearance and sinister demeanor make her a creepy and iconic horror movie figure.

Don't Look Now's dwarf killer adds to the impact of the movie's iconic ending while also being one of the most chilling elements of the film. Don't Look Now is a hugely influential psychological horror movie by director Nicolas Roeg and based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier. It stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as grieving parents who, in the wake of the loss of their young daughter, travel to Venice to heal. However, they soon find themselves in a surreal nightmare with John Baxter (Sutherland) haunted by visions of their child.

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Donald Sutherland starred in the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, playing Matthew Bennell. The film, directed by Philip Kaufman, is praised for its depiction of 1970s America, ensemble cast, and special effects. Sutherland's performance is praised for his versatility and embodying a desperate victim.

Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor who recently passed away and was mostly known for films like Don't Look Now, The Hunger Games, and Animal House, among others, was a classic performer who imprinted his own identity on his movies. It didn't matter if he played the lead character or if it was a more secondary performance; Sutherland had the presence needed to make every role a memorable one. Among his most notable renditions was playing Matthew Bennell in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Bennell is the lead character in Philip Kaufman's 1978 version of the literary classic by Jack Finney, The Body Snatchers. The second...

Donald Sutherland, the iconic Canadian actor who passed away in July 2024 at the age of 88, left behind a legacy of memorable performances and principled career choices. His son, Kiefer Sutherland, recently paid tribute to his father, calling him “one of the most important actors in the history of film.”

Donald Sutherland’s illustrious career spanned decades, featuring standout roles in classics like “Mash,” “Don’t Look Now,” and “Klute.” Despite never receiving an Academy Award nomination, he was widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation. In recent years, he captured the attention of younger audiences with his chilling portrayal of President Snow in “The Hunger Games” franchise.

Kiefer Sutherland, following in his father’s footsteps, became a household name himself, most notably for his role as Jack Bauer in the hit series “24.” It was during the show’s run that an intriguing opportunity arose for the...

Donald Sutherland passed on 24 to avoid playing a father trying to kill his own son. Donald didn't want the first time he acted onscreen with his real son Kiefer to be his antagonist. Sutherland and Kiefer only shared scenes in one movie, Forsaken, directed by Jon Cassar.

Donald Sutherland passed on a major role in 24 alongside his son Kiefer, but he did it for the sweetest of reasons. Donald Sutherland passed away at the age of 88 in July 2024 and despite having (somehow) never been nominated for an Academy Award, he was seen as one of the best actors of his generation. During the 1970s, Sutherland went on a positively eye-watering run of great movies, fronting Robert Altman's Mash, Don't Look Now, Klute, 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers and more.

Sutherland had no shortage of great roles in the decades that followed, from his incredible cameo as a pyromaniac...

If being a Hollywood star consists of having either major box office clout or a few Oscar nominations (and, preferably, at least one win), the great Donald Sutherland never had any of those. Then why, since his death last Thursday at age 88, has he been celebrated the world over as one of the true legends to grace the modern screen?

The reason is simple: the Canadian-born Sutherland, whose incredibly prolific and versatile career kicked off in 1964 with the Italian horror flick, The Castle of the Living Dead, possessed the extremely rare quality — call it a kind of alchemy — where he could disappear into a role and yet somehow remain Donald Sutherland at the same time.

Whether he was playing a sinister Nazi spy (The Eye of a Needle), a boozy G.I. medic (M*A*S*H), an existentially lovesick detective (Klute), the benevolent English patriarch of a classic 19th...

Award-winning Canadian film actor Donald Sutherland has died:

Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including “The Dirty Dozen” (1967), “M*A*S*H” (1970), and “Kelly's Heroes” (1970). He subsequently starred in many films both in leading and supporting roles, including “Klute” (1971), “Don't Look Now” (1973)…

…“The Day of the Locust” (1975), “Fellini's Casanova” (1976), “The Eagle Has Landed” (1976), “1900” (1976), “Animal House” (1978), “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978), “Ordinary People” (1980), “Eye of the Needle” (1981)…

…”A Dry White Season” (1989), “Backdraft” (1991), “JFK” (1991), “Six Degrees of Separation” (1993), “Without Limits” (1998), “The Italian Job” (2003) and “Pride & Prejudice” (2005).

More recently, Sutherland portrayed ‘President Snow’ in “The Hunger Games” with TV work including “Citizen X” (1995) and “Uprising (2001).

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About three-quarters of the way through every performance of David Adjmi’s Tony-winning play Stereophonic, two characters – Holly, the British keyboardist/vocalist (played by Juliana Canfield) and Grover, the American recording engineer (Eli Gelb) get into a debate over their favorite movies. Their favorite erotic movies, to be exact.

The setting being, as it were, a cantankerous rock & roll recording studio session circa 1976, there’s no surprise that Holly and Grover likely won’t agree, and indeed, Grover chooses Last Tango in Paris, making sure to point out that every woman he’s ever dated has had a crush on Marlon Brando.

Not so Holly. She finds Brando mean and misogynist, and much prefers the sensitive poignance of Donald Sutherland in the grief-stricken romantic thriller Don’t Look Now.

Now, Holly mentions Don’t Look Now every night, but on Friday night the words landed quite a bit differently among the...

Legendary actor Donald Sutherland just passed away at the age of 88. Younger fans probably know him best for playing the villainous President Snow in the Hunger Games movies, or perhaps for voicing Hollis Hurlbut in that one episode of The Simpsons.

Older audiences, on the other hand, grew up watching Sutherland in classic movies like M*A*S*H, Don’t Look Now and The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Although his greatest work, hands down, was this vintage Canadian tourism commercial in which he tells a joke about a salmon fisherman on his wedding day.

Sutherland also starred in one of the most profitable movie comedies of all-time: National Lampoon’s Animal House.

Sutherland played the highly-inappropriate Professor Jennings (who somehow still isn’t the most questionable element of the movie). This may have seemed like an odd role for the actor at the time, but Sutherland only took the gig...

He was initially an ambassador from the Hippie Nation, a force of irreverence armed with a sharp wit and a what-me-worry smile. Which is why, in the late 1960s, right when Flower Power was beginning to bloom in full and the escalating situation in Vietnam galvanized the youth generation, Donald Sutherland started to make a name for himself in… war movies. It’s funny to think of that factoid now, given the six decades of incredibly versatile work the late, great actor left behind when he died Thursday at the...

Donald Sutherland passed away Thursday at the age of 88, an actor so respected for his dramatic acting that he won an honorary Oscar in 2017. He’ll be remembered for Klute, Ordinary People, Don’t Look Now and even The Hunger Games, but don’t forget that Sutherland played key roles in three of the most influential comedies ever.

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Take a seat, Alan Alda — Sutherland was the original Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman’s epic satire. Sutherland didn’t get along with the director, but who cares? It was Altman’s first hit-it-out-the-park classic, a movie that thumbed its nose at the Vietnam War by pretending to be about the Korean War. “Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland are two genuinely funny actors,” wrote Roger Ebert in his four-star review. “They don’t have to make themselves ridiculous to get a laugh. They’re funny because their humor comes so directly from their personalities.