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Longlegs (2024) is an American horror thriller film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. It stars Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, who also serves as producer through his Saturn Films production company. The story follows a young girl with a Polaroid camera in 1970s Oregon who stumbles upon a car outside her house and is lured by a mysterious voice to the back of the property where she encounters an unsettling man wearing pale makeup. Decades later, newly recruited FBI agent Lee Harker exhibits inexplicable intuition while ...

MaXXXine (2024), the latest addition to Ti West’s X film series, is an American slasher movie set in 1985 Los Angeles during the infamous Night Stalker murders. Maxine Minx, famous for her work in adult films, auditions for the lead role in The Puritan II and lands it despite her unconventional background. Following the audition, she mentions it to her friends Leon and Amber James, who invites her to a party in the Hollywood Hills. However, Maxine declines as she heads to her second job at a live peep show. While working, she encounters a mysterious leather-clad figure who seems disturbed by her ...

Saw X (2023), an American horror film, is directed and edited by Kevin Greutert. The screenplay was written by Peter Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg. This movie is the tenth in the Saw film series, a direct sequel to Saw (2004) and a prequel to Saw II (2005). After being diagnosed with advanced brain cancer, John Kramer seeks out alternative treatments. He meets Henry Kessler at a cancer support group and learns of an experimental Norwegian treatment from Dr. Finn Pederson’s team. Desperate for a cure, ...

The American film, John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023), is a neo-noir action thriller directed and co-produced by Chad Stahelski. Shay Hatten and Michael Finch are credited as writers. In the movie, John Wick prepares for revenge against the High Table while hiding underground with the Bowery King in New York City. He later travels to Morocco where he takes down the Elder, known as ‘the one who sits above the Table’. Upon hearing of this, Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont, a member of the High Table, summons New York Continental Hotel manager Winston and his concierge Charon. The Marquis expresses disappointment in ...

Directed by David Gordon Green, Halloween Ends (2022) is a slasher film with Green serving as co-writer alongside Danny McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier. The movie serves as a sequel to Halloween Kills (2021), the thirteenth installment in the long-running Halloween franchise. It also marks the conclusion of a trilogy that began with the 2018 film following directly after the events of the original 1978 film. On Halloween night in 2019, Corey ...

The upcoming action comedy film, The Man from Toronto (2022), directed by Patrick Hughes, features Teddy Jackson, a struggling fitness entrepreneur from Yorktown, Virginia, lost his job at a local gym for distributing brochures without the necessary address. Keeping this setback to himself, he decides to surprise his wife Lori with a trip to Onancock for her birthday. While she enjoys a day at the spa, Teddy mistakenly arrives at the wrong cabin and finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation involving a man named Coughlin. Unknowingly mistaken for “the Man from Toronto”, an elusive assassin known for ...

Pearl (2022) is an American horror film directed by Ti West, co-written by West and Mia Goth, who also stars as the title character. Set in 1918 during the influenza pandemic, Pearl resides on her family’s Texas homestead with her German immigrant parents while her husband, Howard, is away serving in World War I. Her father is confined to a wheelchair and her controlling mother, Ruth, insists that she help care for both him and the farm. Despite longing for a more thrilling existence, Pearl finds solace in the movies at the nearby cinema and dreams of becoming a chorus girl – much to Ruth’s disapproval. However, Pearl’s behavior also exhibits ...

X (2022) is a slasher flick from America, written, directed, produced and edited by Ti West. The lead role of Mia Goth is split between two characters: Maxine, a young lady, and Pearl, an older woman. In 1979, cops show up at a secluded farm in rural Texas and come across multiple corpses wrapped up in bags. When they enter the house, they discover something shocking down in the basement. Just one day before this gruesome finding, aspiring adult film star Maxine sets off on a road trip with her boyfriend Wayne, along with actors Bobby-Lynne and Jackson, director RJ and ...

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022–2024) is the debut season of the true crime anthology series, Monster, produced by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix. It premiered on September 21, 2022 with Murphy as showrunner and executive producer alongside Brennan. The series delves into the infamous life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, while also featuring key characters such as Dahmer’s father Lionel, stepmother Shari, neighbor Glenda, and grandmother Catherine. Reviews for Dahmer were mixed, but it ...

A slasher flick, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), is directed by David Blue Garcia and features a screenplay by Chris Thomas Devlin. Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues contribute to the story. Serving as the ninth installment in the franchise, it takes place half a century after Leatherface’s infamous killing spree in 1973. The plot revolves around Melody and Dante, along with their companions Lila and Ruth, who journey to the abandoned town of Harlow in Texas to auction off ...

Bullet Train (2022) is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch and starring Brad Pitt as an assassin on a high-speed train. Adapted from the novel Maria Beetle (released as Bullet Train in the UK and US), written by Kōtarō Isaka and translated by Sam Malissa, the story takes place in modern day Tokyo. Yuichi Kimura, a grieving father seeking revenge for his son’s death, receives a cryptic message to meet his assailant on the bullet ...

Memory (2022) is an American action thriller film helmed by Martin Campbell and written by Dario Scardapane. Adapted from De Zaak Alzheimer by Jef Geeraerts, it serves as a remake of its Belgian predecessor, The Alzheimer Case. The story follows contract killer Alex Lewis, who lives in Mexico and battles early onset Alzheimer’s while working for Davana Sealman. His latest assignment takes him to El Paso, Texas to eliminate Ellis Van Camp, a builder at the Texas Central Processing Facility. During his time in ...

Scream (2022) is an American slasher film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. As the fifth installment in the Scream series, it serves as both a reboot and direct sequel to the previous film, Scream 4 (2011). 25 years have passed since Billy Loomis and Stu Macher terrorized Woodsboro, but the town is once again plagued by Ghostface. High school student Tara Carpenter is attacked while home ...

Spiral (2021) is an American horror-thriller directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and scripted by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger. Serving as a stand-alone sequel to Jigsaw, the ninth installment of the Saw film series, the storyline centers around Detective Marv Bozwick, who, while off-duty at a Fourth of July parade, chases a thief into a sewer drain. Suddenly ambushed from behind by an unknown figure donning a pig mask, Bozwick awakens to find himself hanging above an active subway tunnel with only one ...

Malignant (2021) is an American horror film directed by James Wan with a screenplay by Akela Cooper, based on a story by Wan, Ingrid Bisu, and Cooper. In 1993 at Simion Research Hospital, Dr. Florence Weaver and her colleagues Victor Fields and John Gregory were treating Gabriel, a violent patient who could control electricity and transmit his thoughts through speakers. Gabriel’s actions resulted in the deaths of several ...

Dexter: New Blood (2021–2022) is an American continuation of the hit show Dexter, created by original series showrunner Clyde Phillips and directed by Marcos Siega. The story takes place ten years after the original series finale, ‘Remember the Monsters?’ which aired in 2013. It premiered on Showtime on November 7, 2021 and was initially intended to be a standalone miniseries. However, it was announced in February 2023 that a second season is in the works, focusing on Dexter’s son Harrison and will air at a later date.

Halloween Kills (2021), a slasher film from director David Gordon Green and writers Danny McBride and Scott Teems, follows the aftermath of a tragic incident on October 31st, 1978. Deputy Frank Hawkins accidentally kills his partner while trying to save him from Michael Myers, and also stops Dr. Samuel Loomis from executing the killer. Forty years later, on another Halloween night (October 31st, 2018), Hawkins is stabbed by Dr. Ranbir Sartain and left for dead. He is found by Cameron Elam, who calls for help and regrets not ...

The Protégé (2021), an American action thriller film directed by Martin Campbell with a screenplay by Richard Wenk, follows the story of Anna, an assassin who was taken in and trained by Moody after he rescued her from a violent ordeal in Da Nang. Together, they traveled the world and completed high-profile contracts before settling down in England. While Anna runs a rare-book store, Moody resides in a grand manor house. On one fateful day, Rembrandt walks into Anna’s shop under the guise of buying a gift. In present times, Anna and Moody collaborate to take down a ...

The film Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021) is an American action comedy directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Tom O’Connor and Brandon and Phillip Murphy. The main character, Michael Bryce, takes a break from his bodyguarding career to vacation in Capri while he awaits the reinstatement of his license. However, his peace is interrupted when Sonia Kincaid finds him and convinces him to help rescue her hitman husband Darius, who has been kidnapped by ...

The Little Things (2021) is an American neo-noir psychological crime thriller film directed and written by John Lee Hancock, with Mark Johnson as co-producer. Set in 1990, a teenage girl is pursued on a highway by a motorist. She seeks refuge at an abandoned gas station and catches the attention of a passing truck driver, successfully escaping her pursuer. In Bakersfield, Deputy Sheriff Joe ‘Deke’ Deacon is sent to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to gather evidence for a recent homicide case. Accompanied by newly appointed lead detective ...