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The Host is the film that introduced filmmaker Bong Joon Ho to the world. Originally screening at Cannes and released in South Korea in 2006, The Host was Bong Joon Ho’s first film to receive worldwide theatrical distribution (it landed in the U.S. in 2007). The movie has an international feel to its production, even…

The opening credits of Rosemary’s Baby are a quiet marvel: Mia Farrow hums a wordless lullaby as curly pink lettering appears over the New York skyline. The lettering comes from the cover of Ira Levin’s 1967 novel. Title designer Wayne Fitzgerald executed the sequence under Stephen Frankfurt, who also oversaw the “Pray for Rosemary’s Baby”…

Steve Buscemi’s Fargo wardrobe helped him figure out Carl Showalter, the criminal he played in the Coen brothers’ 1996 film. At its 25th anniversary reunion in 2021, he credited costume designer Mary Zophres with making the character click: “It’s the polyester sweaters,” he said, as The Guardian reported. Joel Coen had also made him a…

Twilight of the Dead completed its Kentucky shoot in September, with Kate Beckinsale and Betty Gabriel leading the cast. Deadline’s October 2 report confirms that George A. Romero’s planned farewell to his zombie saga has made it through filming, 9 years after his death in 2017. Romero developed the treatment with Paolo Zelati. The project…

Tyra Banks was promised a memorable death scene when she signed on for Halloween: Resurrection. The 2002 slasher ended up showing only a brief glimpse of her character’s body, with the full scene cut from the movie. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Banks said an unnamed agent had sold her on 2 potential rewards: an acting…

Sawa says the cast didn’t realize how powerful the death scenes were while making Final Destination. Years later, an ordinary drive can still remind him of the franchise’s horrors. Driving behind a log truck still gets to Devon Sawa, who starred in the original Final Destination. Speaking on E!’s Hot Goss, he described how the…

In “Other Mommy,” Jessica Chastain plays Ursula, a mother who loves her daughter, and the entity wearing her exact face that wants into the family home. The supernatural horror movie opens wide October 9. Rob Savage (“Host,” “The Boogeyman”) directs, James Wan produces, and the script adapts Josh Malerman’s 2024 novel “Incidents Around the House.”…

Michael Showalter’s 2026 adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel drops struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) into a job she can’t afford to refuse: finish a blockbuster series for Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway), a bestselling author of villain-narrated thrillers who has been left unable to speak or move after a car crash. The crash is being…

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…