Almost 40 years after the original classic arrived in theaters, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is on the way, and Warner Bros. has debuted the official teaser trailer today.

Watch the teaser trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice below, which is short and sweet enough to get you excited for a return to the Neitherworld without spoiling a damn thing.

There’s only one thing we really need to know… THE JUICE IS LOOSE!

Here’s the official plot synopsis: “After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.”

The upcoming sequel is said to be a real throwback to the hand-crafted days of the 1980s, with Tim Burton employing practical effects and classic stop motion as much as possible.

Keaton explained to People, “The one thing that [Tim Burton] and I decided on early, early, early on from the beginning, if we ever did it again, I was totally not interested in doing something where there was too much technology. It had to feel handmade.”

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice haunts theaters on September 6, 2024, and the cast features Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, and Monica Bellucci.

Jenna Ortega plays Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz.

“I don’t know how much I’m allowed to say, but I am Lydia Deetz’s daughter, so I’ll give that away,” Ortega recently told Vanity Fair. “She’s weird, but in a different way and not in the way you’d assume, I would say. The relationship between Lydia (Ryder) and Astrid, my character, is very important. And it’s also really strange because it’s a lot of catching up and putting the pieces together of what’s gone on in Lydia’s life since, which is nice, I think, for anybody who loves the character and is excited to see her again.”

Catherine O’Hara and Justin Theroux will also star in the upcoming sequel, with frequent Tim Burton collaborator Danny Elfman coming back to compose the film’s score.

Tim Burton directs from a screenplay by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (Wednesday), story by Gough & Millar and Seth Grahame-Smith (The LEGO® Batman Movie), based on characters created by Michael McDowell & Larry Wilson.

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In the wake of the film’s Fantastic Fest premiere, Doppelgänger Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to the home invasion movie Crumb Catcher, Deadline reports this afternoon.

Chris Skotchdopole wrote and directed Crumb Catcher, and Doppelgänger Releasing plans on bringing the film to theaters later this year. Read on for more information.

In Crumb Catcher, “After blacking out on his wedding night, Shane (Rigo Garay) and his wife (Ella Rae Peck) head to a remote estate for their honeymoon. That night, there’s a knock at the door; a waiter and bartender from the reception, blackmailing Shane for something he can’t remember doing. But the blackmailers don’t just want money. They’re after business partners for their invention, an outlandish device called…the Crumb Catcher.”

“I started writing Crumb Catcher in 2016 as our country was being divided by the Great Hate Magnet. What emerged was a twisted tale of home invasion, two couples on opposing ends of the American Dream- a reflection of the absurdist times that in 2024, we are all still forced to participate in,” Skotchdople said in a statement.

“My intention was to make a thrilling and suspenseful film, but my hope is that these couples have more to reveal. I’m proud to partner with Music Box Films and Doppelgänger Releasing, a company that believes in community and that the lifeforce of independent film starts in a movie theater.”

Lorraine Farris and John Speredakos also star.

Of particular note, Larry Fessenden (Blackout) produced the film.

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South Korea’s current box office champion multiple weeks in a row, Exhuma, offers an unexpected and entertaining take on folk horror. While dense in lore and spiritual worldbuilding, the latest horror offering from writer/director Jae-hyun Jang (Svaha: The Sixth Finger, The Priests) balances its grim, sometimes bloody folkloric terror with levity and heart. Anchored by four “ghostbusters” of sorts, with charismatic actors behind them, the intricately woven Exhuma delivers one of the year’s biggest surprises in horror so far.

Exhuma hits the ground running with an introduction to Shaman Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and her close protégé Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun, “Sweet Home“), arriving on a flight to Los Angeles. They have been summoned by the ultra-rich Park Ji-yong (Kim Jae-cheol) for a well-paying gig helping him rid his infant son of a supernatural curse. Hwa-rim traces the curse back to South Korea, where they enlist colleague and geomancer Sang-deok (Choi Min-sik, I Saw the Devil, Oldboy) and mortician Young-geun (Yoo Hae-jin). The foursome’s investigation leads them to an unmarked grave on an isolated mountainside. Despite ill omens and reservations on Sang-deok’s part, Hwa-rim convinces the group to proceed with the job. Of course, excavating the grave unleashes an evil none could have predicted or are prepared to stop.

Jae-hyun Jang breaks the story into chapters, which is a helpful move considering just how ambitious this dense narrative becomes. Superstition, spirituality, and rituals kick off the strange chain of events. But the more revealed about the mysterious grave, and the more horror it unfurls, the more Jae-hyun Jang digs into his heady metaphor of historical horror and how the past has shaped and divided the present. It’s not homegrown horror here, but commentary on Korea’s residual trauma and tenuous relationship with Japan and reckoning with its ghosts.

The initial Korean family curse serves as the inciting event, but it’s also a trojan horse for a far more effective type of folk horror that generates no shortage of potent, innovative imagery. The type of imagery that instantly evokes an intoxicating blend of awe, repulsion, and intimidation. Supernatural horror has rarely been this cool or as wild; Exhuma features one of the coolest new horror movie monsters (of sorts) to come along in a while, but you’ll have to be patient getting there.

The wait is helped by a few supernatural freakouts and a palpable, relentless sense of dread. Most of all, it’s the complex and affable protagonists. Tenured talent Choi Min-sik serves as the deeply superstitious voice of reason. From the outset, Sang-deok senses something deeply amiss with the grave site, and his expertise and experience are invaluable to the team. Yet he’s not solely defined by his geomancy; he is a fully realized character that quickly endears to audiences. Yoo Hae-jin frequently brings the levity, and Lee Do-hyun serves as the beating heart, driving his allies forward in the increasingly precarious fight. However, the film belongs to the Kim Go-eun. Hwa-rim begins as a steely, confident and powerful Shaman, well connected to the supernatural realm and key in containing the evil. Once Hwa-rim realizes she faces forces beyond her expertise, fear shatters that confidence and sparks an engaging underdog arc that culminates in a thrilling third act.

The first act’s approach to folkloric horror and cleansing rituals calls to mind South Korean horror movies like The Wailing. But Jae-hyun Jang quickly shift gears, broadening the horror to also include possession, ghost induced scares, and a physical manifestation of past historical trauma in the most gonzo way. The type that will leave you cheering for “sweetfish and melon.” It’s occasionally violent and bloody, always atmospheric, and stunning in cinematography and composition. While its story is so dense that it threatens to run away from the filmmaker at moments, the extremely likable characters and a sense of horror fun ensure it never derails, right up to its thrilling finale.

Jae-hyun Jang combines introspective cultural and historical themes with creepy, gory, and atmospheric horror thrills in an exciting way. It’s fun horror with a lot on its mind. That’s a tricky thing to achieve, and the cast and crew of Exhuma make it look effortless.

Exhuma released in limited theaters on March 15 and is expanding across North American theaters on March 22.

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The 30-year anniversary of David Fincher’s horror masterpiece Se7en is fast approaching, and David Fincher had teased just last summer that a 4K restoration was on the way.

Fincher told Variety in June 2023, “We’re going back and doing it in 4K from the original negative and we overscan it, oversample it, doing all of the due diligence and there’s a lot of shit that needs to be fixed. Because there’s a lot of stuff that we now can add because of high dynamic range.”

He continued, “You know, streaming media is a very different thing than 35 mm motion picture negative in terms of what it can actually retain. So there are, you know, a lot of blown-out windows that we have to kind of go back and ghost in a little bit of cityscape out there.”

So when will you be able to see this new 4K restoration of Se7en? We’ve learned this week that David Fincher will present a world premiere restoration IMAX screening at the TCM Classic Film Festival this coming April! The festival runs from April 18-21 in Hollywood.

You can learn more about this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival on the official website.

In the 1995 film, written by Andrew Kevin Walker, “Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.”

Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Spacey star.

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Lifetime’s latest thriller drops viewers into the action right from the jump. Under desaturated grey/blue skies, introverted lawyer Mel (Lindsey Desbach) rides a ferry to Feng Key island. She’s headed to the titular party island not for a vacation, though; she’s there to identify the body of her drowned younger sister, Georgia (Andrea Prevatt).

It’s immediately clear that something unusual is afoot when Mel visits the police station and unhelpful Detective Alex Hurley dismisses her suspicions. Georgia’s body was found on the beach with her wallet, but her phone and passport are missing. Later, as Mel begins to investigate, frightened local Kaya (Mia Rose) insists that Georgia was wearing a bathing suit when she was pulled from the water, so where was she keeping her wallet?

Clearly something is amiss and seemingly everyone knows it, including Wayward hostel owner Keaton (Adam Harper) and his manager Paula (Kate Dailey). The pair act friendly to Mel, but in a very facile, surface-level way. As Mel pokes around, she learns that local dive bar owner Jever (James Bobo) has an illegal side hustle, and Kaya insinuates that Georgia isn’t the first girl to disappear: their friend Faye (Mackenzie Thompson) is also gone and missing posters frequent bulletin boards wherever Mel goes.

The first act of Danger on Party Island is the film’s best because of where it might go. Writer Hannah Maryse Robinson’s screenplay wisely never pretends something bizarre isn’t going on, which allows the narrative to focus on who is involved and what are they covering up.

While the film wastes no time establishing its premise, Danger on Party Island does struggle to sustain its mystery. This is, in part, because it has no interest in developing its characters outside of their relationship to Georgia’s death. None of the characters are provided any depth or development; they’re all either informants, suspects, and/or red herrings.

Sadly this lack of characterization includes Mel, who is defined first and foremost by her dogged tenacity. There are a few moments that interrogate how her grief and the investigation are affecting her job, but the timeline of the film is only a few days, so outside of a pair of phone calls, Mel is in private investigator mode 24/7.

Thankfully Desbach has the personality to carry the film. Mel’s refusal to back down – despite being attacked, chased through the woods, and repeatedly told to leave the island – is always presented as an admirable trait. The audience may not know much about her, but Mel is dogged and smart.

This is never more apparent than a second act development that questions whether Georgia is even dead or simply taking a “digital detox” that has prevented her from reaching out. Mel and her mother Alice (Annie Cook) watch the social media post together and both women immediately identify it as little more than a lie and a distraction. It’s a plot development that confirms that Mel is smart and savvy; it’s not simply a twist to complicate the narrative.

Unfortunately the truth about what is happening on the island is exactly what viewers will expect. As a result, the reveal renders the climax slightly underwhelming and bogs down the pacing of the last act. Direct Danny J Boyle attempts to keep the energy up with a frenetic series of double crosses and chase sequences, but these are hampered by the obvious budgetary constraints.

Not helping matters is the film’s overall lack of geography: whereas the hostel has a gorgeous, spa-like aesthetic with exposed wood beams and a lounging pool below the entrance, Feng Key island never comes together visually. It’s unclear what the proximity of one location is to another and the “tombstoning” cliffs that Georgia purportedly perished over are never even seen.

Then there’s the question of how many people are on the island. While there are a few crowd shots, the island is often conveniently empty, which belies the film’s titular “party” scene. Hell, at one point Mel runs into Jever’s bar to avoid being followed, only to discover the drinking establishment completely empty!

These issues, paired with the underwhelming third act, undermine the film’s strong set-up. Danger on Party Island is a reasonably entertaining diversion, but a more sensational reveal and better character work would have helped to make it more memorable. Instead it’s another middle of the road Lifetime entry.

Danger on Party Island airs Wednesday, March 20 (8pm EST) on Lifetime.

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David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) is at the helm of a mysterious new genre movie for Bad Robot and Warner Bros., starring Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway. Per Variety, Sundance breakout star Maisy Stella (My Old Ass) has nabbed the third lead role.

Maisy Stella joins previously announced cast members Ewan McGregor (Doctor Sleep) and Anne Hathaway (Colossal).

Plot details remain tightly guarded since the project was announced, but the movie is categorized as a thriller. Considering Bad Robot is behind the Cloverfield films, Overlord, Super 8, and more, it feels safe to presume the untitled project will be a genre thriller of some sort.

Originally reported by Jeff Sneider and John Rocha on their show “The Hot Mic” last year, the mysterious new project is reportedly set in the 1980s… and features dinosaurs?! If so, Hathaway’s turn in Colossal might make her well poised to take on the prehistoric beasts. For now, though, these details haven’t been confirmed.

David Robert Mitchell will direct from his original script and will produce alongside J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella for Bad Robot and Matt Jackson of Jackson Pictures. Jake Weiner and Chris Bender of Good Fear Content will serve as executive producers. Sheila Walcott and Zach Hamby will oversee for the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group.

The untitled film will be shot in IMAX and is expected to head into production this year.

Add this Bad Robot production to the list of things to get excited about. David Robert Mitchell  is also returning to the world of It Follows with the upcoming They Follow, which will bring Maika Monroe back as Jay Height.

Stay tuned for more on about this untitled new film from Bad Robot and David Robert Mitchel as we learn it.

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