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Robert Eggers turned Lily-Rose Depp into a mud-caked medieval farmer’s wife for “Werwulf,” complete with a prosthetic cleft lip, facial scars, and a head wrapped in a burgundy scarf. Depp was photographed in late November 2025 at Bourne Wood near Farnham, England, in a heavy wool costume, carrying a swaddled baby through a village of…

Seth Rogen has already seen Curry Barker’s upcoming horror-comedy Anything But Ghosts, and he thinks it tops Obsession, the movie that made him a fan of the filmmaker. Speaking to TIME, Rogen said the new film is “even better” and added that Barker’s “just as good an actor as he is a director.” Barker stars…

The photo behind Neo in The Matrix Resurrections came from a restaurant visit in 1997, when chef Peter Fang made Keanu Reeves wait in line, mistook him for Sean Connery, and got a thank-you for the mix-up. Fang founded House of Nanking at 919 Kearny Street in San Francisco. His daughter Kathy was still in…

A trip to scatter their father’s ashes leaves 3 estranged siblings stranded on a remote river in River. Their boat breaks down miles from help, their phones have no service, and a faceless killer is watching from the woods. Surviving means working together through the grudges they’ve brought aboard. Jane Levy (Evil Dead) plays Lucy,…

Tim Burton learned about Warner Bros.’ plans for a third Beetlejuice movie during a July 2025 interview, 3 months after the studio said development would begin soon. The director of both films responded: “Really? Nobody told me. Maybe I’ve been replaced.” The studio’s announcement came in an April 11, 2025 Deadline interview with Warner Bros.…

Ryan Gosling gained weight to play the grieving father in The Lovely Bones, then left the film before shooting began. Mark Wahlberg took over as Jack Salmon after Gosling and director Peter Jackson disagreed about the character. Gosling described his preparation at The Hollywood Reporter’s November 5, 2010 actors’ roundtable: “I was melting Haagen Dazs…

In Mad Monster Party? (1967), Rankin/Bass gives its stop-motion monsters a reason to gather: Dr. Frankenstein has a destructive new weapon to show off and a retirement announcement to make. Boris Karloff voices the doctor, whose choice of successor is his nephew. The studio behind Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer fills the guest list with Dracula,…

In Silt, Tommy Wiseau plays Bartleby, the eccentric owner of a lakeside resort. He sees the land as sacred, and he claims the lake’s waters contain “the genes of the Gods.” A group of friends stay at the lake and soon discover that the water does seem to have some sort of restorative property. But…

Chase Infiniti’s next lead role puts her inside the world of a painting that may be looking back. Lionsgate has greenlit Portrait of God, a feature adaptation of Dylan Clark’s 2022 horror short, with Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele producing together for the first time. The short follows a religious young woman working on a…

Werner Herzog says he helped Klaus Kinski find harsher ways to insult him in Kinski’s own autobiography. When Anderson Cooper read one of its attacks during a 60 Minutes interview first aired on March 16, 2025, Herzog replied, “Yes, it’s beautiful stuff, I actually helped him,” then added, “with Roget’s Thesaurus.” The passage calls Herzog…

Lili Reinhart says she has a specific lesbian-vampire novella she wants to bring to the screen, though she hasn’t revealed its title. “There is a book, it’s a novella, that I’m trying to get adapted that is about lesbian vampires,” she told Hits Radio. “And people are too afraid to make that.” She appealed directly…

I know, I know, the plots aren’t the exact same but Poor Things and Frankenhooker land on the same premise: a woman brought back to life in a Frankenstein story, exploring her body. Both on very different budgets. And sure, Poor Things wasn’t as camp. Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2023 film gives Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter the…

The Poolrooms began as a 2020 render by artist Jared Pike: a fluorescent-lit maze of empty indoor pools with no visible exit. It spread across TikTok and YouTube as a Backrooms offshoot, an internet urban legend about slipping through reality into a tiled dreamscape you can’t swim out of. In The Poolrooms, a teenager dives…

A viewer’s sister reportedly watched all of Joker believing the lead role was played by Ty Burrell, Modern Family’s Phil Dunphy, rather than Joaquin Phoenix. I guess I kinda see it? That definitely would have been a different film entirely. The resemblance gives the mix-up its punch: Burrell’s awkward, upbeat sitcom dad and Phoenix’s isolated…

Ginger was Jennifer’s cult-horror predecessor. Their stories share a striking shape: each teen becomes a monster who preys on boys, and someone close to her has to stop her. In the 2000 film *Ginger Snaps*, Ginger is bitten on the night of her first period and begins turning into a werewolf. Her sister Brigitte faces…

Ted Kaczynski entered Harvard in 1958 at age 16 to study mathematics. From 1959 to 1962, he was among 22 students in Henry Murray’s study of how people withstand interrogation, humiliation and emotional pressure. The research was intended to inform interrogation methods for government and law enforcement officials. Russell Crowe plays the Harvard psychologist in…

Warning: spoilers below. Dakota Johnson’s Lowen Ashleigh spends the entirety of Michael Showalter’s Verity trying to uncover the truth about the mysterious author she’s been hired to ghostwrite for — and still walks away not fully knowing what she’s done. Lowen is brought on by Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett) to finish a book series written…

Weeks into filming the 2009 Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Noomi Rapace says she faced 4 men who wanted Lisbeth Salander to deliver a monologue explaining her trauma and backstory. Rapace believed the scene betrayed the character’s defining refusal to talk about herself, so she told them, “I won’t do it.”…