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How Indie Horror Went Mainstream in 2024

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EJ Moreno looks at the rise of independent horror movies in 2024… What a knockout year for horror overall. While the point of this piece is to spotlight what a fantastic ride it’s been in the independent horror space, we’ve seen major studios drop surprising bangers like The First Omen and Smile 2. But we […]

Stephen King’s Fairy Tale to become A24 series from Fringe creator and Paul Greengrass

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Another adaptation from Stephen King’s vast body of work is on the way as Deadline reports Fairy Tale is being developed as a 10-episode series by A24 and Fringe creator J.H. Wyman and Bourne and News of the World director Paul Greengrass. Fairly Tale was previously being developed as a feature film with Greengrass having written a script with […]

A24’s Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake resurrected under Welcome to Derry showrunner

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A24’s Friday the 13th series Crystal Lake has been killed-off and resurrected more times than its iconic mask-wearing monster, but now it has sat bolt upright once again with the news that Welcome to Derry showrunner Brad Caleb Lane is to bring the show to Peacock. Kane inherits Camp Crystal Lake duties from Hannibal‘s Bryan Fuller, […]

Brandy has a mother-off in new trailer for A24’s The Front Room

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Brandy knows how to mother, but can she handle one devilish mother? In the trailer for A24’s upcoming horror film The Front Room, the singer/actress faces off against the mother-in-law from hell in what looks to be an explosive ride. She’ll star opposite Kathryn Hunter, who is known for her star-making turn in Joel Coen’s […]

Hugh Grant ventures into horror with A24’s Heretic trailer

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A new spine-chilling psychological horror is coming from A24, and Hugh Grant is front and center for the madness as the studio has dropped the first look trailer for Heretic from writer/director duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East, Heretic sees the two actresses face off with Grant […]

Here’s the gory details on A24’s axed Friday the 13th series Crystal Lake

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We’ve waited quite a long time for our thirteenth Friday the 13th, so a series set at Crystal Lake was being developed to hold us over. Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller was teamed with Jim Danger Gray to serve as co-showrunner, while Fuller served as writer and executive producer. Then, last month, the shocking news came […]

Jennifer Lawrence to star in Apple and A24 murder mystery The Wives

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Jennifer Lawrence will headline The Wives, an upcoming murder mystery from Apple Original Films and A24 that Lawrence will produce as well as star in. The Wives is to be partly inspired by the reality TV franchise Real Housewives, focusing on the drama and lifestyles of rich socialites in Orange County, Miami, Atlanta and New York. It sounds […]

Sally Hawkins teams with Talk To Me directors for new horror film Bring Her Back

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Actress Sally Hawkins has dipped her toe into the world of horror before, first appearing in a 2007 genre film and then starring in the Academy Award-winning horror love fantasy The Shape of Water. Deadline reports that Hawkins is using that training to topline a brand-new horror film from A24. She’ll star in Bring Her […]

Janet Planet trailer teases A24’s critically-acclaimed coming of age drama

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A24 and BBC Film has released the trailer for 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker’s critically-acclaimed coming of age drama Janet Planet. Charting a summer spent in the company of an 11-year old girl (Zoe Ziegler) and her mother, and the three visitors who enter her life, Janet Planet stars Julianne Nicholson (Dream Scenario), Elias […]