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Spring has officially sprung, and the natural world is slowly waking up after a chilly winter hibernation. The season is associated with rebirth and regrowth, themes well-suited to horror.

This week’s ‘Stay Home, Watch Horror’ streaming picks are dedicated to springtime horror movies that capture the essence of the season, whether through more modern celebrations of spring break or spring’s ancient pagan roots. Here’s where to stream them this week.

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Apostle – Netflix

Writer/Director Gareth Evans brings every bit of the bone-crunching brutality of The Raid and The Raid 2 to his period folk horror film. The Guest’s Dan Stevens stars as Thomas, a man who travels to a remote island in 1905 to infiltrate the cult that’s kidnapped his sister for ransom. The cult leaders claim that the barren island was made fertile through blood sacrifice,...

Now that we know the Jason Statham action sequel The Beekeeper 2 is officially happening, genre fans are buzzing and have found the perfect martial arts icon to join The Stath in the highly anticipated follow-up. Taking to social media, Statham fans are pleading with The Beekeeper 2 director Timo Tjahjanto to add The Raid star Iko Uwais to proceedings, with X/Twitter user @Dedikur21 kicking things off by saying, “I beg you work with Iko Uwais again and cast him in Beekeeper 2. Make a proper round 2 for this two.”

Jason Statham and Iko Uwais have shared the screen, and exchanged punches, before in 2023’s Expend4bles. Sadly, while both actors committed to kicking each other to death, both the movie and the fight scene were ultimately a disappointment. Following his star rising thanks to his role in The Raid and The Raid 2, Hollywood has struggled to give Iko Uwais...

After waiting several years for its arrival, the action movie majesty of Havoc, which sees The Raid director Gareth Evans join forces with Oscar-nominee Tom Hardy for this Netflix thriller, is almost upon us. And it certainly sounds like it could boast not just one of Hardy’s best performances, but Havoc has the potential to be one of the best action movies of all time, with Evans promising that the actor is in “f*cking beast mode.”

Speaking with Empire, who have also revealed a new image from Havoc which you can check out below, Evans teased how Havoc will differ from his previous action masterpieces The Raid and The Raid 2. Havoc will involve far more gunplay, and a little less martial arts, than Evans’ previous works, with Hardy at the center as an unstoppable, granite-built action hero.

“It was never going to be a martial-arts film. I wanted...

Gareth Evans’ Havoc has been a long time coming, but the gritty action flick is finally set to be released next month on Netflix. As a massive fan of The Raid and The Raid 2, I’m hugely excited to see what Evans has up his sleeve this time. The director told Empire that Havoc marks a shift from martial arts action to gritty gunplay and that Tom Hardy was more than up for the challenge.

“It was never going to be a martial-arts film,” Evans explained. “I wanted this to feel like the gunplay stuff that I love watching… Tom came to us in f***ing beast mode. I tapped him on the shoulder and it was just like granite. He came fully physically prepared.“

Related Tom Hardy brings the pain in the teaser trailer for Gareth Evans’ Havoc

Hardy plays Walker, a “bruised detective fighting his way through...

Havocwriter and director Gareth Evans explains how his upcoming Netflix action movie features Tom Hardy in "f*cking beast mode." Known for directing action movies like The Raid: Redemption (2011) and The Raid 2 (2014), Evans' new movie follows Hardy's Walker, a detective who must fight his way through the criminal underworld to rescue a kidnapped politician's son. In addition to Hardy, the Havoc cast features Forest Whitaker, Timothy Olyphant, and Luiz Guzmán, with the initial teaser trailer promising that the film will be a violent ride for audiences.

In a recent interview with Empire ahead of the Havoc release on Netflix on April 25, Evans previews some of what's to come from the film. The movie will mark a subtle shift away from something like The Raid 2 in the sense that Evans says, “It was never going to be a martial-arts film." Instead, he explains, "I wanted this to feel like...

Gareth Evans is undeniably one of the greatest action directors working today. And now, over a decade after he delivered The Raid 2, he’s back with his first action movie since that head-exploding sequel. Make way for Havoc, a bruising crime thriller packed with wince-worthy action – this time with Tom Hardy in the leading role. And where The Raid and its follow-up leaned into the martial arts prowess of Evans’ regular collaborator Iko Uwais, the brawls in Havoc are tailored to Hardy’s hulking physique.

“It was never going to be a martial-arts film,” Evans tells Empire, speaking to a subtle shift in action sub-genres. “I wanted this to feel like the gunplay stuff that I love watching.” You’ll see Hardy blasting a shotgun above, but Havoc also makes use of the A-lister’s sheer heft. “Tom came to us in fucking beast mode,” says Evans. “I tapped...

“Havoc” is finally here. Almost.

The underworld thriller starring Tom Hardy was announced back in 2021 and it arrives on Netflix on April 25. And now you can watch the brand-new, bone-crunching teaser below.

“Havoc” hails from writer/director Gareth Evans, who wrote and directed modern action classics “The Raid” and “The Raid 2.” His last film was the underrated 2018 Netflix folk horror film “Apostle,” starring Dan Stevens as a man searching for his missing sister on an island gripped by a strange cult. He also co-created “Gangs of London,” the cult series based on the PlayStation game.

The official logline for “Havoc” reads: “Walker (Tom Hardy) is a bruised detective fighting his way through the criminal underworld threatening to engulf his entire city. In the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong, Walker finds himself with a number of factions on his tail; a vengeful crime syndicate, a crooked politician, as well as his fellow cops.

It’s been nearly five years since it was first announced that Tom Hardy would star in Havoc, a new action thriller from The Raid director Gareth Evans. The film has certainly been a long time coming, but it will finally be released on Netflix this April. The streamer has released the new hard-hitting trailer that showcases Evans’ signature chaotic style that helped made his Raid movies a big staple of the action movie genre.

The cast includes Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Michelle Waterson, Sunny Pang, Jim Caesar, Xelia Mendes-Jones with Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, and Forest Whitaker.

The official synopsis reads,

“Walker (Tom Hardy) is a bruised detective fighting his way through the criminal underworld threatening to engulf his entire city. In the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong, Walker finds himself with a number of factions on his tail; a vengeful crime syndicate,...

Tom Hardy is returning to the action genre for Havoc. Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming action movie from The Raid director Gareth Evans.

Havoc marks Evans' first directorial feature since 2018 when he helmed the gothic horror movie Apostle. The filmmaker is best known for directing the 2011 Indonesian action thriller The Raid, which critics have called one of the best action movies of the decade. He also directed the 2014 sequel The Raid 2. In Havoc, Hardy plays a bruised detective named Walker, who must fight his way through a criminal underworld threatening to engulf his entire city to rescue a politician's estranged son. Check out the teaser trailer and poster for Havoc below.

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Venom star Tom Hardy smashes his way onto Netflix in the adrenaline-fueled first trailer for the long-awaited action thriller, Havoc. Directed by Gareth Evans, who has proven his unmatched affinity for the action genre with the likes of The Raid and The Raid 2, as well as the crime series Gangs of London, Havoc finds Hardy charging his way into the criminal underworld as a world-weary detective on the hunt for a politician’s estranged son.

Written and directed by Evans, Hardy will be joined in this action-packed adventure by Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker and star of Justified and The Mandalorian, Timothy Olyphant. Making up the rest of the supporting cast are Justin Cornwell, Jessie Mei Li, Yeo Yann Yann, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Sunny Pang, and Michelle Waterson. You can check out the newly released trailer and the official synopsis for Havoc below.

After a drug deal gone wrong,...

Buckle up, everyone: Gareth Evans is back in action. Literally. After the gore-strewn one-two punch of The Raid and The Raid 2 – a duology which quite literally reshaped the action movie genre as we know it – the director moved on to gnarly folk horror (Apostle) and small-screen crime sagas (Gangs Of London Season 1). But with his long-awaited Havoc, he’s back in movie mode for the first time since 2017 – and plunging back into the all-out action with which he made his name. And this time, he has a mega A-list star leading the way in the shape of Tom Hardy. The results promise to be thrilling and bruising in equal measure – and the first teaser has arrived, offering a glimpse of the… well, havoc to come.

Boom. This is just a brief look for now, but the combination of Evans and Hardy seems to be as no-holds-barred as you’d hope.

Picture: Empire Online / Netflix

Havoc is the long-awaited crime drama starring Tom Hardy. Directed and written by Gareth Evans, the movie has been coming for a long time but will finally hit our screens in early 2025. Here’s everything we know about the action thriller as of late 2024, including all the first looks, the first trailer, and the all-important release date.

Gareth Evans is best known for his Indonesian martial arts films, The Raid, The Raid 2, and Merantau, through which he brought the Indonesian martial art of Pencak Silat into world cinema. The Welsh native is also known for creating and directing Sky Atlantic’s critically acclaimed series Gangs of London, which stars Joe Cole (Black Mirror, Peaky Blinders) and Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones).

Gareth Evans on the set of Gangs of London

Havoc was first announced publicly in early 2021 when it was also revealed that he was...

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The Raid director Gareth Evans is ready to unleash Havoc — but don’t worry, it won’t last too long, as Evans himself revealed that his next movie will have a runtime of 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Following his appearance at the Next on Netflix event this week, Gareth Evans confirmed the runtime of Havoc — the subject of some discussion and speculation as of late — would be a “tight one.” Posting on Instagram, Evans wrote, “Oh and to clarify as have seen rumours rumbling… the runtime for the film is a tight as a drum 1hr 45mins (Inc credits) and will be out this spring (sorry for being cryptic – I’m not allowed to say exactly when just yet!).” While we don’t have a release date, knowing that the runtime for the movie itself is likely somewhere around 1:40 or less is encouraging.

With that runtime,...

Great action movies come to those who wait, and our patience has finally paid off as, after four years, Tom Hardy and The Raid director Gareth Evans’ Netflix thriller Havoc is all set to land on the streamer later this year. Recent rumors claimed that the action outing would be a lengthy 2 hours and 30 minutes long. However, during yesterday’s “Next on Netflix” event, Evans revealed the real runtime. And while it's considerably shorter, this may, in fact, be a good thing.

Responding to the rumors, the filmmaker revealed that, rather than a sprawling action epic, Havoc will instead be a much tighter, fast-paced fist to the face, and clocks in at “a tight as a drum” 1 hour and 45 minutes. Which, rather than spending time on a lot of chatter, should mean that Hardy and Evans will hit the ground running when Havoc lands on Netflix in the spring. Check...

We finally know when (roughly) Venom star and Oscar-nominee Tom Hardy will smash his way onto Netflix in the adrenaline-fueled first trailer for the long-awaited action thriller, Havoc. Directed by Gareth Evans, who has proven his unmatched affinity for the action genre with the likes of The Raid and The Raid 2, as well as the crime series Gangs of London, Havoc finds Hardy charging his way into the criminal underworld as a world-weary detective on the hunt for a politician’s estranged son.

After waiting several years, Netflix has at last revealed that the action movie is ready to go and “will premiere this spring” on the streaming platform. The exciting revelation comes courtesy of Variety and their report into what Netflix has on offer in 2025, including updates on Knives Out 3, Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein, and The Old Guard 2.

Written and directed by Gareth Evans, Tom Hardy will...

We have now reached year four of waiting for Tom Hardy to join forces with the director behind The Raid, Gareth Evans, for the Netflix action movie Havoc. But this latest update certainly suggests that it will have been worth the wait. While we have known the plot and the cast for some time, action fans have had to wait patiently for any other information or updates, with this new insight potentially revealing the long-awaited thriller’s epic runtime.

According to World of Reel, various outlets, including IMDb Pro, now have Havoc listed with a runtime of 2 hours 30 minutes, matching Evans’ 2014 martial arts epic The Raid 2. If this is accurate, it should give Hardy and Evans plenty of time to deliver what promises to be a modern classic of the genre as the Oscar-nominee and Venom star takes to the streets as a “bruised detective” who finds himself entering...

Mainland filmmaker Cheng Si Yu is a regular when it comes to action movies showing on the local video streaming platforms. Starting with “The Grandmaster of Kung Fu” (2019), “Tai Chi Master” (2022) and “Desperado” (2024) starring Danny Chan. His latest online project, “Striking Rescue”, streaming on Youku, even comes with a bigger drawcard, featuring the Muay Thai warrior himself, Tony Jaa in the lead. Interestingly, this movie managed to get a cinema release in the US and Thailand.

Set in Jiati City, in the Palivina Republic, Bai An (Tony Jaa), a retired security veteran highly skilled in Muay Thai is on a deadly mission of seeking justice for the murder of his wife and young daughter. Upon learning that He Ying Hao (Philip Keung), a rich Chinese businessman might be responsible, he plans to kidnap He’s daughter Ting (Chen Duo Yi) first in order to get to her father.

It turns...

The Raid: Redemption star Iko Uwais is making action movie fans’ dreams come true today, with the genre icon and skilled martial artist not only launching his own production label, but lining up not one, but two new action movies. Best known for the blisteringly brilliant action movies The Raid and The Raid 2, as well as The Night Comes for Us, Snake Eyes, Expend4bles, and more, Iko Uwais will make his directorial debut with the action thriller Timur, in which he will also star.

As per a report by Deadline, Uwais will officially launch his production company, Uwais Pictures, “at next month’s EFM in Berlin.” The actor’s aim is to “replicate the success of modestly budgeted, local-language hits such as The Raid, The Raid: Redemption, and The Night Comes for Us,” with the company striving to incorporate “fight choreography, action design, and stunt performance from the inception of its projects.

The Action Scene explores the form, history, and visceral power of action cinema through its set pieces.Clockwise from top left: Boy Kills World, Life After Fighting, Blade of Fury, Black Storm.This past year may have been the decade’s strongest yet for action scenes. Half of the honorable mentions could’ve held their own against most main-list entries from previous years, and some of this year’s scenes rank among the best I’ve ever seen within their respective set-piece categories.The following list rounds up my fifteen favorite action scenes of 2024. As usual, I’ve limited myself to one scene per film, and to films that made their US theatrical or streaming debut in 2024. Scenes have been organized by theme to highlight patterns and enhance ease of perusal.On Home TURFTop and bottom: Fury 12 Hours.A testament to the exceptional work being done in low-budget, direct-to-streaming Chinese...

Mark Wahlberg’s panned action thriller from 2018 is currently finding new life on streaming. Mile 22, which sees Wahlberg reunite with Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots Day director Peter Berg, has now found its way into the top 10 on Starz, with audiences turning to this no-nonsense tale of Marky Mark and his leadership of an elite, top secret CIA unit.

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, and Ronda Rousey, Mile 22 was met with largely negative reviews upon release. The action outing stands at just 23% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, with audiences slightly more enamored and scoring the movie 44% on the Popcornmeter. “Mile 22 lets the bullets fly -- and not much else -- in a thrill-deficient action thriller whose title proves sadly fitting for a film that feels close to a marathon endurance test,” the critics’ consensus reads. You can check out the official synopsis below.

Rachel Griffiths drama “Madam” has sold to a slew of territories across the Asia-Pacific region including Hong Kong and Philippines.

The comedic drama stars Griffiths as New Zealand local Mack Leigh who discovers her husband has been visiting sex workers, prompting her to open her own “feminist, ethical brothel.”

Rima Te Wiata (“The Wheel of Time”), Danielle Cormack (“Wentworth”), Robbie Magasiva (“Bad Behaviour”), Martin Henderson (“Virgin River”) and Ariāna Osborne also star.

Based on Antonia Murphy’s memoir, which has been adapted for screen by showrunners Shoshana McCallum (“Inside”) and Harry McNaughton (“The Pact”), the show is directed by Kacie Anning, Madeleine Sami and Peter Salmon and produced by Tavake and XYZ Films for Warner Bros. Discovery Anz in association with Fifth Season, who are handling worldwide distribution.

They have now secured deals with Australia’s Nine Network, Hong Kong’s Now TV and Philippines’ Lionsgate Play.

Executive producers are...

Despite our name, the team here at Empire HQ can't help but love a rebel. And that's just as well, because the return of Cassian Andor in Tony Gilroy's hotly anticipated Andor Season 2 forms the world-exclusive cover feature of our stacked 2025 Preview issue — your ultimate guide to the must-see movies and shows headed our way over the next 12 months.

This month's issue hits newsstands on Thursday 21 November — and is available to pre-order online here, too. Read on for a look inside its pages.

Andor Season 2

The revolution will be televised! Following Andor's out of this world first season, Empire heads to a galaxy far, far away to talk to creator Tony Gilroy and his cast all about continuing — and completing — one of the most gripping stories the Star Wars universe has ever told. Godspeed, rebels! Words: Mike Ryan.

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Gareth Evans’ long awaited new film Havoc is (finally) coming to Netflix in 2025 after delays, and here are the details.

It’s been a long time coming, but the first film from Gareth Evans in over a half a decade is finally set for release in 2025. Getting here has been quite the road.

Gareth Evans made a huge impact on 21st century action cinema in 2011 when he wrote and directed The Raid, which introduced the world not only to the fierce Indonesian martial art of Pencak Silat, but also to Iko Uwais, who dispatched body after body with brutal efficiency. 2014’s The Raid 2 upped the ante on the violence considerably, letting characters like Baseball Bat Man and Hammer Girl loose and featuring quite possibly the best prison brawl this century.

While an English language remake of The Raid remains in development hell, Evans has gradually built up a career this side of the pond,...

It’s been nearly five years since it was first announced that Tom Hardy would star in Havoc, a new action thriller from The Raid director Gareth Evans. The film has certainly been a long time coming, but it will finally be released on Netflix in 2025. Empire dropped a new image from Havoc featuring Hardy sending some poor bastard to the emergency room. You can check that out below, as well as a few more from Netflix itself.

As production wrapped up four years ago, you might be wondering what the hold-up has been; according to Evans, that came down to the difficulty in scheduling additional photography, which required some very specific people to be in the same place at the same time. However, the director promised the film would be worth the wait, and the delay was only beneficial. “It’s had a profound effect on the film,” he said.

Venom 3 continues to deliver at the box office, and despite the possibility that it might not reach the same level of commercial success as its predecessors, it already proved to be a hit. It looks like Tom Hardy gets much busier these days as he gears up for yet another action thriller film, Havoc.

Credits: Tom Hardy in Venom: The Last Dance / Sony Pictures

This project is an exclusive deal with Netflix and the English actor has been attached to it from the get-go. Surprisingly, filming began in July 2021 and finished in October of the same year. After a long-gestating process, it will finally be unveiled in 2025.

Tom Hardy’s Havoc Promises Another Hit Following Venom Franchise’s Success

Havoc starring Tom Hardy is based on a screenplay written and directed by Gareth Evans, known for the highly successful action thriller films The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2. It...

More than three years after production initially wrapped on the action movie, Netflix is finally ready to show the world Gareth Evans' Havoc. Two first look images from the hotly-anticipated movie have been released, both showing a grizzled Tom Hardy that means business.

Empire released the first image as part of its "2025 Preview First Look" series, showing Hardy's character Walker restraining a man in what looks to be a bar or nightclub. Netflix debuted the second image on X, which simply features Hardy's Walker pointing a gun directly at the camera. A brief synopsis for Havoc was also shared by the streamer and reads as follows: "After a drug deal gone wrong, a detective fights his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician's son unraveling a web of corruption and conspiracy ensnaring his entire city." Check out the first look images of Hardy in Havoc below.

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You may not even be aware that Oscar nominee and Venom star Tom Hardy has already filmed an action thriller for Netflix directed by the filmmaker behind the martial arts masterpiece The Raid. If you were not aware, allow me to say that again: Tom Hardy is leading an action thriller from the director of The Raid. Titled Havoc, Hardy reportedly finished filming more than three years ago, but we still do not know when it will debut on the streaming platform.

Thankfully, we may at least now have some idea. Director Gareth Evans, who has also helmed Merantau, The Raid 2, and Apostle, took to Instagram a few months ago to reveal that Havoc will (hopefully) hit Netflix in the first quarter of 2025. See what Evans had to say about the production of the action movie below.

Only the most glamorous of locations. But working with the best of friends.

An upcoming action thriller could very well be what every action movie fan has been waiting for. Sounding like the perfect cross between Liam Neesons 2008 hit Taken and director Gareth Evans The Raid, the movie boasts an incredible cast of martial arts actors with enviable action movie pedigree, a filmmaker with a penchant for stunts, and an exquisitely no-nonsense plot that should allow for the punches, kicks, and everything else in between to fly hard and fast.

Titled The Furious (which should tell you everything you need to know about what were in for), the action outing is all set to be helmed by Tanigaki Kenji, who is best known for his stunt work in the likes of the Donnie Yen movie Raging Fire, G.I. Joe spin-off Snake Eyes, and this years martial arts hit Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. Without further ado, you can check out the synopsis for The Furious below,...

Thanks in large part to movies like The Matrix and directors like John Woo, in the early 2000s, action films became highly stylized and more concerned with how slick they looked than with necessarily delivering hard-hitting, in-your-face action. The rough-and-tumble brutality of the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone era gave way to high-flying wire-fu and highly choreographed fight sequences and never did the two meet. Not until The Raid: Redemption came along and totally upended the action film genre once again.

A non-stop thrill ride from beginning to end, The Raid: Redemption took advantage of (North American) audiences' newfound appreciation for graceful and well-choreographed action while bringing back hard-hitting battles that spared no expense when it came to visualizing their brutality. Here was an action franchise that was finally not afraid to pull any punches. Shortly after that, an American franchise by the name of John Wick took that idea and made it its own.

There are still questions about whether The Raid 3 will happen, even though it's been 13 years since The Raid: Redemption was released. Gareth Evans' Raid movies, which introduced the world to the Indonesian Pencak Silat martial arts, are some of the most influential action movies of the 2010s. The movies were so successful with both critics and audiences that they not only became cult classics, but also made the leading man in the franchise, Iko Uwais, a star who went on to work on notable films such as The Expendables.

Over the years since The Raid 2 was released, there have been discussions about a possible sequel, but so far, nothing has resulted from them. In 2022, it was announced that there would be a remake of The Raid with Michael Bay and Patrick Hughes at the helm (via Deadline). Although some audiences would have preferred a third movie from Evans instead,...

Anthology films have become synonymous with the expression "mixed bag," as it's incredibly difficult to bring in multiple different directors with distinct voices to create short films and expect there to be an equal level of quality or tone. In my opinion, that's part of the fun. An anthology film gives me the chance to micro-dose an experience of a time gone by, where I'd agonize over VHS box cover art in the hopes that whatever I brought home would become my new favorite movie. If it didn't, that's okay, because I could just move on to the next one. The "V/H/S" films capture that experience, and every so often, a segment transcends its place within the anthology and becomes something singular. There are plenty of "V/H/S" segments that I adore and can watch on repeat without ever tiring, but there will always only be one "Safe Haven.

Stars: Jose Manuel, Caitlin Dechelle, Mark Strange, Jade Xu, Miguel Peralta, Lathrop Walker, Matt Goodwin | Written by Ryan C Jaeger, H. Daniel Gross | Directed by Ryan C Jaeger

The trailer for Kung Fu Games boasts that it’s from one of the executive producers of Halloween: Resurrection. For those who don’t remember, that’s the one where Michael Myers gets beaten up by rapper Busta Rhymes. The fact that they thought a connection to that film was something to boast about should have been all the warning I needed.

Instead, I found myself watching a group of confused people wake up in what looks like a subway car as lights flash and sirens sound. A door opens, and they run out into what looks like a fog enshrouded bamboo forest, where one of them gets impaled with a spear and the rest get attacked by fighters who rappel down from the clouds.

One of the greatest action movies, not just of the modern era but of all time, is now available to stream for free. That's right, you can now bear witness to martial arts and action movie mastery without spending a single cent as 2014s The Raid 2 lands on Tubi TV this month. Directed by Gareth Evans and starring Iko Uwais, Arifin Putra, Oka Antara, Tio Pakusadewo, Alex Abbad, Julie Estelle, Ryuhei Matsuda, Kenichi End, and Kazuki Kitamura, it is not hyperbolic to say that The Raid 2 is a blood-drenched symphony of violence and action movie artistry that makes most other movies of the genre look like easily defeated henchmen.

A sequel to 2011s The Raid, the Indonesian action thriller that tells the simple, isolated story of an elite squad tasked with infiltrating a high-rise building run by a ruthless drug lord, The Raid 2 picks up with Iko Uwais character,...

Exclusive: International sales outfit LevelK and financing and production company Brick Lane Entertainment have boarded Bogieville, a new vampire horror flick directed by actor and director Sean Cronin (Give Them Wings).

Brick Lane Entertainment and LevelK will co-represent the film for North American distribution.

Described as “sinister” and “atmospheric” with strands of “comedic horror,” the film follows Jody and Ham, a young couple on the run after an unfortunate sequence of events. On their travels, they stumble upon a desolate trailer park, only to discover it is home to a nest of terrifying hillbilly vampires led by the formidable Madison. The park’s sinister caretaker, Crawford, persuades the couple to stay. But they soon learn of his tragic backstory — Madison has turned his twelve-year-old daughter Lily, dooming her to eternal childhood. As an intense power struggle unfolds between Madison and another vampire, Billy Cupps, the couple must navigate a treacherous...

Many film historians speculate that cinema's first martial arts movie was Zhang Shichuan's The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple. Released in 16 parts between 1928 and 1931, The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple ran 27 hours long. Unfortunately, The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple is now a lost film, but there are plenty of incredible martial arts films that now exist to help fill the void.

It was not until the late 1960s that martial arts movies began to appeal to international audiences. Cheng Pei-pei and Jimmy Wang Yu were among the first internationally recognized martial arts movie stars thanks to their performances in films such as Come Drink with Me and The One-Armed Swordsman. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, martial arts movies produced by Shaw Brothers Studio and Golden Harvest turned actors such as Bruce Lee, Alexander Fu Sheng, Gordon Liu, Sammo Hung, and Jackie Chan into cinema's greatest action movie stars.

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of September titles. The Tubi September 2024 slate features new Tubi Originals and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library: over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of Tubi Originals, and nearly 250 Fast channels.

You can watch the Tubi September 2024 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

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Noah really loves his girlfriend,...

If you need even more evidence of horror’s continued dominance, no matter the time of year, look to streaming services at the start of every month. Each month brings a plethora of new additions to streaming libraries across all platforms, from Netflix to Tubi. That means an insane selection of all styles and types of horror available at our fingertips. The downside is that it can make choosing the perfect horror movie to watch an overwhelming process.

Sometimes you want to cut right to the chase to find the horror offerings, and Halloween is just around the corner…

If you get stuck scrolling for hours searching for a good watch on Netflix, we’re here to help. Here are the best Netflix horror movies you can stream right now, from contemporary classics to gruesome horror westers to teen chillers and beyond.

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Vampire Road Movie ‘Bogieville’ Sets FrightFest World Premiere: "British filmmaker, actor and “professional movie villain” Sean Cronin’s feature vampire road movie Bogieville has set its World Premiere at the 25th anniversary edition of the UK horror fan fantasy film festival FrightFest, taking place August 22-26 in London, England.

Bogieville – which was directed by Cronin from a screenplay by Henry P. Gravelle (The Over Easy Courthouse Café) was filmed in England, and is produced by Djonny Chen for Silent D Pictures, along with Cronin for Magnificent Films. Cronin as an actor has portrayed villains in dozens of box office hits, as well as having directed several award-winning titles.

Revolving around a young couple ‘Ham’ and ‘Jody’ on the run who come across the eponymous derelict American trailer park, they are convinced to stay by the sinister caretaker ‘Crawford’, although they soon learn that he is in fact the guardian of the residents of Bogieville,...

Stars: Josh Burdett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Randy Couture, Michael Teh, William McNamara, Denise Richards | Written by Ali Zamani, Chris Kato | Directed by Ali Zamani

You can add Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace to the list of sequels nobody asked for or thought they’d ever see. For those of you who missed it, the original Angels Fallen was a 2019 film about demon hunters who track fallen angels with a smartphone app and fight them with guns and tasers. Throw in cameos by Eric Roberts and Michael Madsen and you have another forgettable straight-to-streaming film.

But somebody must have remembered it because here we are with the story of Gabriel who was left with physical and mental wounds by his time in Iraq. One night, he wakes from a nightmare to hear a voice telling him his time has come. He finds Balthazar, played by Cuba Gooding Jr. taking over from Michael Madsen,...

From Magnificent Films and Silent D Pictures, director Sean Cronin’s vampire movie Bogieville has set its World Premiere at the 25th anniversary edition of the UK horror fan fantasy film festival FrightFest, taking place August 22-26 in London, England.

Sink your teeth into the brand new official trailer below.

In the film, “A young couple on the run come across an American trailer park and are convinced to stay by the sinister caretaker Crawford. But they soon learn that he is in fact the guardian of the residents of Bogieville, themselves a pack of blood-thirsty vampires.”

Indonesian film star Arifin Putra (The Raid 2) and newcomer Eloise Lovell Anderson (Villain) star, along with Sean Cronin as the lead vampire Madison.

Sarina Taylor (Solitary), Poppie Jae Hughes (Our Kid), Daniel P. Lewis (Wuthering Heights), Andrew Lee Pots (The Crown) and Katie Sheridan (The Royal Nanny) also star.

Bogieville was filmed in England,...

J.J. Abrams is a man known for improving upon the Star Wars franchise with the release of his 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Taking a completely new direction, Abrams had a lot of fun while directing the movie.

J.J. Abrams. | Credit: Gage Skidmore/Cca-By-sa-2.0/Wikimedia Commons.

The director, who is a fan of John Boyega got to work with the actor for some action sequences but he didn’t stop there. Abrams revealed that he called the trio from The Raid 2 for help to shoot one of the iconic scenes of The Force Awakens!

When J.J. Abrams Called The Trio From The Raid 2 For Help

It was the year 2015 when J.J. Abrams sat in the director’s chair and cast Daisy Ridley, Harrison Ford, John Boyega, and a plethora of stars in the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

A still from The Raid...

Gareth Evans directs Tom Hardy in the upcoming action movie Havoc, a city-wide conspiracy thriller. Havoc marks Evans' return to the action genre after a decade, following The Raid franchise. Despite being finished since 2021, Havoc's release remains uncertain, with no confirmed date from Netflix.

The director of The Raid films, Gareth Evans, is working on a new action movie called Havoc and it could be the perfect replacement for The Raid 3. The action-packed plot of Havoc kicks off when a drug deal goes horribly awry. Tom Hardy will play a detective who has to uncover a city-wide conspiracy while he fights his way through the criminal underworld to save a politicians estranged son. Evans is directing from a script he wrote and hes also producing the film alongside Hardy, Ed Talfan, and Aram Tertzakian.

Ever since he directed The Raid and its sequel, Evans has been one of the...

Fillipino filmmaker Pedring Lopez is set to direct Ji, an action feature set in Korea and parts of Southeast Asia, with a cast that includes Yayan Ruhian of The Raid and Boy Kills World.

The film will be produced by the Philippines’ Black Ops Studios Asia and Singapore’s Very Tay Media, co-produced by Asia Media Alliance. It marks the second collaboration between Black Ops and Very Tay after upcoming martial arts vampire horror Blood Passage, also directed by Lopez.

Ji will centre on the head of a Korean crime syndicate who travels to the Philippines to rescue her kidnapped...

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In the cartoonishly violent Indian action flick Kill, a gang of train-robbing bandits face off against a single unstoppable passenger. Throats are cut; fingers are crushed; knives, meat cleavers, hammers, and fists swing wildly. Bodies sustain unrealistic degrees of injury and keep going in pursuit of vengeance.

If you need even more evidence of horror’s continued dominance, no matter the time of year, look to streaming services at the start of every month. Each month brings a plethora of new additions to streaming libraries across all platforms, from Netflix to Tubi. That means an insane selection of all styles and types of horror available at our fingertips. The downside is that it can make choosing the perfect horror movie to watch an overwhelming process. Sometimes you want to cut right to the chase to find the best Netflix horror movies.

If you get stuck scrolling for hours searching for a good watch on Netflix, we’re here to help. Here are the best Netflix horror movies you can stream right now, from folk horror to existential nightmares to inventive creature features and beyond.

American Psycho

Mary Harron’s adaptation of the novel brings the dark humor and bloodletting in equal measure.

Pluto TV, Paramount’s free streaming service, has revealed its July highlights. The Pluto TV July 2024 schedule includes a new Westerns category and a Yellowstone Fourth of July marathon.

You can also expect fireworks at the Big Brother house when season 26 premieres, and with Pluto TV’s dedicated 24/7 live feeds, you won’t miss a second of the drama. Fans can also relive past seasons of the competition series on a new dedicated channel.

Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service, delivering hundreds of live, linear channels and thousands of titles on-demand to a global audience. The Emmy Award-winning service curates a diverse lineup of channels in partnership with hundreds of international media companies.

Pluto TV offers various genres, languages, and categories featuring movies, television series, sports, news, lifestyle, kids, and much more. The service can be easily accessed and streamed across mobile, web, and connected TV devices.

Computer-generated and visual effects in movies have reached peak saturation over the past couple of decades. Seemingly every other “exterior” scene is shot against a digital background nowadays, and most action sequences look more like flashy video game cutscenes than genuine cinematic moments.

Amid the deluge of CGI sadness, however, there are still filmmakers and stunt people committed to filming action in the purest way, capturing stunts in-camera, on location, and with trained professionals. As much as visual effects have advanced over the years, there’s still nothing better than the real thing, and the movies on this list prove that the art of in-camera stunts is as potent and powerful as ever.

Tom Cruise Hangs on Side of Plane — Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

A case can be made that Tom Cruise hanging off the side of an A400 Atlas military plane as it takes off is the most iconic modern movie stunt there is.

Iko Uwais has been practicing the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat since he was 10 years old. Uwais was discovered by Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans in 2007 when Evans was making a documentary about silat. Uwais learned the fighting style from his grandfather, who founded the Tiga Beranti Silat School in 1974.

Indonesian actor Iko Uwais has one of the most extraordinary fighting styles used in modern martial arts movies. Gaining popularity from Gareth Evans' gripping The Raid movies and being seen as a wasted martial artist in The Expendables 4, Uwais has started to become a household name in action films. Over the last decade, Uwais, alongside his often-on-screen fighting partner, Joe Taslim, has delivered some of the most fast-paced, brutal, and satisfying fight scenes throughout the genre. Though he broke out in 2011's The Raid: Redemption, he's just now starting to appear in major Hollywood films.

Without Uwais' unique fighting style,...

Movies that embrace gaming elements can create a unique and immersive experience for viewers. Action films like The Raid and Edge of Tomorrow show the influence of video games on cinema. Films like Crank and John Wick adapt video game-like intensity and storytelling for the big screen.

While there have been plenty of video game movie adaptations over the years, often a movie that looks and feels like a video game without being based on one can work a lot better. This was because movies that took influence from gaming without being burdened by the expectations set by a previously established work had the freedom to embrace what they were and create something special. Many action movies could learn a lot from video games' intensity and immersive nature, and some movies have fully embraced these lessons.

From the extraordinary kill counts seen in movies such as The Raid to the...

Sean Cronin’s vampire road movie, Bogieville, has completed post-production and is headed to market at the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), with a first-look party taking place at the Fantastic Pavilion on May 16th at 4pm. To give you a tease of the upcoming vampire film, we have an exclusive still, plus additional details, photos, and a look at the official poster:

The horror film – which was directed by Cronin from a screenplay by Henry P. Gravelle (“The Over Easy Courthouse Café”) was filmed in England, and is produced by Djonny Chen for Silent D Pictures, along with Cronin for Magnificent Films. Cronin as an actor has portrayed villains in dozens of box office hits, as well as having directed several award-winning titles.

Revolving around a young couple ‘Ham’ and ‘Jody’ on the run who come across the eponymous derelict American trailer park, they are convinced to stay by...