Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is the not-exactly-proud owner of Cap'n Clark's Ottoman Empire, a sad and empty furniture store located in a 1990s strip mall. He has plenty of concerns - his failed architect aspirations, the end of his marriage, any customers at all - but unexplained electric troubles at the store also nag him. The lights keep flickering.
Now, Schoenbrun is offering up Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which could be their most ambitious film yet. Where Schoenbrun's debut crystallized their brush with online liminal spaces, and I Saw the TV Glow spliced the stimulation of the "egg crack moment" with their affinity for cult TV classics, the filmmaker's third project lays waste to the slasher - but that's not its only focus. The reclamation of pleasure and sensuality is also top on Camp Miasma' s list of priorities, making for a horror that's equal parts horny and harrowing.
This week's episode, "Our History," a flashback to 1702 and Sarah Westcott Warren's arrival in Widow's Bay, provides some clarity. It seems obvious now that the man with the long hair at the beginning of "What to Expect on Your Trip" is Richard Warren, portrayed by Hamish Linklater, and that what we witnessed was his arrival on the island and his discovery of the funnest fungi in fungi history.
“Meme has several different definitions, but a meme, for my purposes, is a contagious idea. It's an idea that is in some way catchy or invites you to spread it to other people. A lot of things can qualify as a meme for differ”
Bear (Michael Johnston) wishes for his crush to fall in love with him, he gets much more than he bargained for in writer-director Curry Barker's twisted fable. Navarrette plays the bewitched Nikki as a raw nerve, a woman whose unnatural devotion to her boyfriend has her swinging between terrifying extremes. Nikki is one of the more frightening horror characters in recent memory, constantly teetering on the edge of violence - but she's also, in Navarrette's hands, surprisingly sympathetic.
By day, Poppy Stringer is a fashion influencer who crafts flawless lewks for her followers. By night, she steals corpses for the highest bidder. When flamboyant "King of Queer Rock" Eddie Michaels drops dead, Poppy is tasked with sneaking his body out of the Palm Springs medical examiner's office. When the routine snatch-and-grab goes spectacularly wrong, she finds herself trapped in a neon-soaked, blood-drenched nightmare, fighting for her life through a campy carnival of carnage across the California desert.
In Forbidden Solitaire, you've come into possession of some controversial '90s software. A gnarly, gory fantasy card game you recall spooking you as a kid, but never encountering beyond magazine ads.
"We built this partnership with iHeart to create elevated genre storytelling that doesn't just live in audio, but has the potential to expand across platforms," said Dean Butler, Executive Producer of the slate and Senior Literary & Talent Manager For CitizenSkull.
Daniele Castellano's vivid drawings are many things: spooky, hyper detailed, fantastical and never boring. With imagery based on the mysteries of memory, psychology and bodily sensations, Daniele frequently engages with mythology.
Lee Cronin's new film is a somewhat rote possession-exorcism entry, lacking originality and relying heavily on familiar horror tropes and clichés.
While John Carpenter's 1982 remake was initially dismissed as an empty, nihilistic gorefest, The Thing (née Another World) has since been reevaluated as one of the greatest science-fiction films of the '80s, and certainly one of the most influential.
Miao wanted to explore the lingering cultural grief of a historic atrocity, stating, 'That's a ghost story.' This reflects the fragmentation and feelings of grief that come with being haunted by something lost.