Shudder Drops Trailer For Halloween Horror Night of the Reaper

Posted on September 1, 2025 by admin

Shudder has released the official trailer and poster for Night of the Reaper, the latest slasher from Brandon Christensen (Still/Born, Superhost), premiering September 19.

Set against the backdrop of a quiet 1980s suburb, the film follows college student Deena (Jessica Clement), who returns home for the weekend and reluctantly takes on a last-minute babysitting job. As night falls, the local sheriff receives a cryptic package that launches him into a chilling scavenger hunt, suggesting a recent teen murder may not have been an isolated incident. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game with a masked killer that escalates into a nightmarish fight for survival.

The cast includes Summer H. Howell (Hunter Hunter), Ryan Robbins (The Thicket), Matty Finochio, and Keegan Connor Tracy (Final Destination 2). Christensen co-wrote the script with Ryan Christensen, citing House of the Devil and When a Stranger Calls as inspirations.

Night of the Reaper premieres exclusively on Shudder September 19.

Film Forum Celebrates 100 Years of Peter Sellers With Two-Week Retrospective

Posted on August 31, 2025 by admin

Film Forum will honor one of cinema’s greatest comic actors with 100 Years of Peter Sellers: From Britcoms to International Icon, running September 19–October 2. The series spans Sellers’ career from early U.K. comedies like The Ladykillers (1955) and his BAFTA-winning role in I’m All Right Jack (1959), to Hollywood landmarks including The Pink Panther series, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964), and his Oscar-nominated turn in Hal Ashby’s Being There (1979).

Eighteen features are included, alongside rare 35mm screenings of Casino Royale (1967), What’s New Pussycat? (1965), A Shot in the Dark (1964), and Sellers’ Oscar-nominated short with Richard Lester, The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959).

Film critic Siddhant Adlakha will introduce the opening-night screening of Blake Edwards’ The Party (1968) on September 19.

Highlights include:

The Ladykillers (1955) – Sept 19, 21, 22, 29
I’m All Right Jack (1959) – Sept 19, 21, 26, 27, 30, Oct 1
Dr. Strangelove (1964, 35mm) – Sept 19, 20, 22, 28, Oct 1–2
Lolita (1962) – Sept 20, 21, 25, 27, Oct 2
The Pink Panther (1963) – Sept 21, 24, 30
Casino Royale (1967, 35mm) – Sept 23
Being There (1979, 35mm) – Sept 26–28, Oct 2

(Additional titles include Two Way Stretch, Only Two Can Play, Heavens Above!, The World of Henry Orient, What’s New Pussycat? and more.)

The full schedule and ticket information are available at filmforum.org.

Marion Cotillard Leads Hadžihalilović’s Surreal Drama The Ice Tower

Posted on August 30, 2025 by admin

Acclaimed French filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović (Innocence, Evolution, Earwig) returns with her fourth feature, The Ice Tower, which is set to open in theaters on October 3, 2025. The film stars Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, and Gaspar Noé.

Co-written with Geoff Cox, The Ice Tower premiered earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival. The project reunites Hadžihalilović with Cotillard, who also starred in her 2004 debut feature Innocence. Known for her surreal and unsettling narratives, the director brings her distinctive style to another collaboration with long-time creative partner Noé, with whom she co-founded the production company Les Cinémas de la Zone in the early 1990s.

Hadžihalilović’s work has previously received recognition at international festivals including San Sebastián, Toronto, and Cannes. The Ice Tower continues her exploration of atmospheric, psychological storytelling, blending elements of fantasy and existential unease.

The film will be released in U.S. theaters on October 3.

Tetsuya Mariko’s “Dear Stranger” Sets International Premiere at Busan Film Festival

Posted on August 30, 2025 by admin

Busan International Film Festival has set the international premiere of Dear Stranger, the latest feature from Japanese director Tetsuya Mariko (Destruction Babies), for its 2025 edition in the “A Window on Asian Cinema” program.

Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car) and Gwei Lun-Mei (Girlfriend, Boyfriend), the Japan–Taiwan–U.S. co-production was filmed entirely in New York and follows a couple whose lives fracture after the disappearance of their young son forces them to confront buried secrets.

The film reunites Mariko with top collaborators, including cinematographer Yasuyuki Sasaki (Asako I & II), editor Matthieu Laclau (A Touch of Sin), and Grammy-winning musician Jim O’Rourke. The project was shot with a multilingual cast and crew across English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and sign language.

Mariko, who won Locarno’s Best Emerging Director Award for Destruction Babies, shifts his focus from violent social critiques to an intimate immigrant drama exploring identity, family, and loss.

Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta Return With Phantom Road, Vol. 3 This October

Posted on August 29, 2025 by admin

Image Comics will release Phantom Road, Vol. 3 on October 8 in comic shops and October 21 in bookstores, collecting issues #11–15 of Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Hernández Walta’s Eisner-nominated supernatural mystery series.

Set in 1997, the new volume follows Agent Donald Weaver in rural Wisconsin as he investigates a string of brutal murders with possible occult ties. Partnered with Agent Jimmy Harold, Weaver uncovers links between Billy Bear truck stops, strange ley lines, and a government conspiracy called Project Jackknife.

Known for its mix of horror, crime, and supernatural elements, Phantom Road has drawn comparisons to Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Lemire’s own Gideon Falls. This latest installment deepens the series’ mythology of roadside terrors and creeping cosmic evil.

Hawai’i Drama Chaperone Sets Theatrical Run and Digital Release Dates

Posted on August 29, 2025 by admin

Chaperone, the debut feature from writer-director Zoë Eisenberg, will screen in Hawai’i theaters from September 11–28, 2025, before arriving on digital and VOD platforms October 3.

Set in rural Hawai’i and featuring an entirely AANHPI cast, the drama centers on 29-year-old Misha Miyamoto, who lives alone in her grandmother’s house and resists pressures from family, work, and relationships to change her unambitious lifestyle. When Misha befriends Jake, an 18-year-old athlete who mistakes her for a high school student, their growing relationship draws her into increasingly reckless behavior.

The film, which explores themes of alienation, identity, and unconventional connection, stars a predominantly local cast and features original music by Taimane. It is produced by Alison Week and Devin Murphy, with executive producers Adam Wong, Lauran Bromley, Gill Holland, and Gerard Elmore.

Eisenberg, a Hawai’i-based filmmaker, has described Chaperone as a story about “finding dangerous comfort in places that reflect what we’re running from.”

Ariana Grande Announces The Eternal Sunshine Tour With Multi-Night Arena Shows in North America and the UK

Posted on August 28, 2025 by admin

Ariana Grande will return to the stage in summer 2026 with The Eternal Sunshine Tour, her first concert run in six years. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will feature extended stays in major cities, including four-night runs in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, and a five-night residency at London’s O2 Arena.

The tour supports Grande’s seventh studio album Eternal Sunshine (2024) and its 2025 deluxe follow-up Eternal Sunshine: Brighter Days Ahead. It launches in Oakland, CA, before stops in Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, and more, followed by UK dates in September.

Tickets for North American shows go on presale September 9, with general onsale September 10. UK presales begin September 16, with general onsale September 18. VIP packages will also be available, offering early entry, exclusive merchandise, and access to a pre-show lounge.

Dave Bautista and Samuel L. Jackson Face a Post-Apocalyptic World in Afterburn

Posted on August 27, 2025 by admin

The final trailer and poster for Afterburn have been released ahead of its theatrical debut on September 19, 2025. Directed by JJ Perry (Day Shift), the action film stars Dave Bautista, Samuel L. Jackson, Olga Kurylenko, and Kristofer Hivju.

Set a decade after a solar flare destroys the Earth’s eastern hemisphere, the story follows Bautista’s Jake, a treasure hunter tasked with recovering the Mona Lisa in ruined Europe. Alongside allies and rivals, he encounters mutants, pirates, and warlords in a landscape where survival is more important than relics of the past. Jackson plays Valentine, with Kurylenko as Drea.

The film is adapted from the Red 5 Comics series by Scott Chitwood and Paul Ens. Perry, a longtime stunt coordinator turned director, emphasizes large-scale set pieces and martial arts choreography.

Afterburn opens exclusively in theaters September 19.

Vietnam-Era Zombie Horror Series ’68 Collected in New Paperback This Halloween

Posted on August 26, 2025 by admin

Image Comics will release the ’68 Compendium paperback this October, gathering the entire 30-issue run of the cult military-horror comic from creators Mark Kidwell, Nat Jones, and Jay Fotos. The 752-page volume brings together the original one-shot, multiple miniseries, one-shots, and backup stories in a single edition.

Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the series imagines the outbreak of a zombie apocalypse beginning on February 13, 1968. U.S. soldiers and the Viet Cong alike face a new battlefield threat as the war collides with the undead. Known for its blend of historical grit and graphic horror, ’68 has developed a reputation as one of the more distinctive takes on zombie comics.

The ’68 Compendium will be available in comic shops on October 8 and in bookstores on October 21, just in time for Halloween.

First Look at Paranormal Comic High Strangeness from Oni Press and SpectreVision

Posted on August 25, 2025 by admin

Oni Press and SpectreVision, the production company founded by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Lawrence Inglee, will launch High Strangeness, a five-part limited comic series influenced by documented cases of paranormal phenomena. The series begins October 8, 2025, with High Strangeness: Book One.

Written by Chris Condon (That Texas Blood), SpectreVision co-founder Daniel Noah, and illustrated by Ringo Award winner Dave Chisholm (Plague House), the debut issue follows Chicago magazine writer Harry Kean in 1967 as he investigates the disappearance of a teenager linked to a UFO sighting in rural Indiana. His search leads into encounters with strange phenomena and the enigmatic “Men in Black.”

Each of the five oversized issues will feature essays by researcher and podcaster Jim Perry (Euphomet), providing historical context on the paranormal cases that inspire the story.

High Strangeness: Book One arrives in comic shops October 8.