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February 2025
If you aren’t watching Dan Fogelman’s Paradise on Hulu, you’re missing out on one of the most jaw-dropping sci-fi shows in recent memory.
As the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to contract, a previously-announced Black Panther spin-off streaming series has now been cancelled.
The White Lotus Season 3 takes place in Thailand and was shot on location, but where specifically did it film? Here’s a breakdown of every location.
It would be nice if HBO’s The Last of Us season 2 made one significant change when it comes to adapting the structure of the second video game.
With over a century’s worth of cinematic witches, Ruth Gordon’s turn in Rosemary’s Baby as Minnie Castevet broke the mold. To be fair, the reveal that the disarming, matronly Manhattanite serves Satan comes as a late-game twist, but even then, Minnie doesn’t revert to an archetypical witch form. Minnie Castevet remains as effervescent, stylish, and unflappable as she is from the start, even as Rosemary’s Baby ends on its iconic shocking final shot.
That is by design, of course. The very notion that the Devil’s most loyal followers aren’t physical monsters or social outcasts but everyday people who sold their souls for money and status is the audacious foundation for Rosemary Woodhouse’s (Mia Farrow) harrowing plight, after all. While writer/director Roman Polanski, adapting Ira Levin’s bestselling novel, effectively lays the groundwork to ensure this reveal achieves its seismic intended impact, much of the credit belongs to Ruth Gordon as Rosemary’s overbearing but warm new neighbor.
It’s easy to overlook Minnie’s significant role in heralding the Antichrist through her continued manipulations of Rosemary when Gordon is such an unstoppable force of nature. Whereas horror often relegates Satan’s servants to darkness, both in design and spirit, Minnie Castevet is a bright flash of lightness. The petite, elderly woman is pure energy and rapid fire wit, with an icy contempt lingering just beneath a polished, bubbly surface. There’s a deceptiveness to Gordon’s sing-song line delivery that makes Minnie’s dialogue stand out. You can practically hear Minnie beaming with feisty pride with quotes like, “He chose you, honey! From all the women in the world to be the mother of his only living son!” Gordon’s Broadway background and prolific career, combined with her comedic chops, effortlessly carved out Minnie’s spot as one of horror’s most memorable all-time villains.
Not even the Academy could deny the actor’s incredible and subversive work on Rosemary’s Baby, earning Gordon her first Oscar win for Best Supporting Actress in 1969. For context, Gordon, born in 1896, was 72 years old when she collected her gold statue and had already amassed four Academy Award nominations in her career for her screenwriting and acting. For additional context, Gordon beat out fierce competition from Estelle Parsons (Rachel, Rachel), Lynn Carlin (Faces), Sondra Locke (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter), and Kay Medford (Funny Girl).
Gordon’s charming acceptance speech cuts right to the heart of this unique win: “I can’t tell you how encouragin’ a thing like this is. The first film that I was ever in was in 1915, and here we are, and it’s 1969. Actually, I don’t know why it took me so long; though I don’t think, you know, that I’m backward. Anyway. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bob. Thank you, Roman. And thank you, Mia. And thank all of you who voted for me. And all of you who didn’t, please excuse me.”
Horror doesn’t often receive notice from the Academy and similar awards organizations, though the genre’s technical achievements have an easier time getting recognition than award categories that are already overstuffed with prestigious critical darlings and award contenders. It does make the rare wins all the more noticeable and meaningful, further highlighting the all-encompassing nature of horror. It’s a genre that lets a prolific, tenured Broadway actress and award-winning screenwriter embody a vibrant Satanic neighbor in a way that only she could, earning her a long overdue, late-career win at 72 years old in a crowded, highly competitive field.
The truth is that horror thrives with or without award recognition, but it is validating when it happens. Ruth Gordon’s Best Supporting Actress win in 1969 is the cherry on top of an incredible career-defining performance, the type that changed the genre while serving as a warm, feel-good reminder to keep pursuing your dreams.
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“Most people would say killing teenagers is not a good thing. But here I am, and here you are for another chapter of Fear Street,” horror author R.L. Stine begins today in a special IGN Fan Fest video for Netflix’s upcoming Fear Street: Prom Queen. The video heralds in the slasher’s official release date.
Fear Street: Prom Queen is coming to Netflix on May 23, 2025.
Four years after an epic streaming event that saw the premiere of three Fear Street movies across three weeks, the R-rated fourth installment of the film series fittingly arrives around prom season.
Fear Street: Prom Queen is set between Fear Street: 1994 and Fear Street: 1978. Matt Palmer (Calibre) is directing the franchise’s brand new fourth installment.
In the upcoming horror movie, “Welcome back to Shadyside. In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway, and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.”
The ensemble cast includes India Fowler (The Nevers, Insomnia), Suzanna Son (Red Rocket, The Idol), Fina Strazza (Paper Girls, Above the Shadows), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty, Cinnamon), Ella Rubin (The Idea of You), Chris Klein (American Pie), with Lili Taylor (Outer Range) and Katherine Waterston (The End We Start From).
Ariana Greenblatt, Darrin Baker, Rebecca Ablack, Ilan O’Driscoll, Damian Romeo, Dakota Taylor, Eden Summer Gilmore, Brennan Clost, and Cecilia Lee also star.
Matt Palmer & Donald Mcleary wrote the screenplay, based on R.L. Stine’s book. Fear Street is a young adult horror fiction book series written by Stine, starting in 1989 with The New Girl.
Watch Stine’s intro video below and get ready for a summer of slasher mayhem.
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You’re Next is out today on SteelBook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray exclusively from Lionsgate Limited, and director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett discuss the unmade sequel to the 2011 home invasion slasher in a new commentary track.
“Originally, [the Lamb Mask killer] got decapitated in the script with his hand pinned to his head,” Barrett explains. “But then we were like, ‘Ah, perfect opportunity, because this film’s gonna be a huge theatrical success, everyone’s telling us, so for You’re Next 2 we’ll just bring [L.C. Holt] back as the Lamb Mask killer.’
“But because his frontal cortex is damaged by getting stabbed in the forehead, he won’t be able to feel pain anymore. He’ll be kind of crazier now, and he wants revenge for his brother.”
He continues, “Our sequel idea, which I’m glad we didn’t do, was the notion that Erin would be arrested. She’d be basically blamed for the murders. Due to her jarring Australian accent, a jury would railroad her. She’d be instantly sent to prison by the corrupt American judicial system.
“While she’s chained to all these other prisoners, their prison van gets attacked. So it was gonna be kind of a Cut-Throats Nine thing, where she’s chained to a bunch of other prisoners, and they all take refuge in a meth lab near the accident. We were gonna use all the meth lab booby traps.
“Basically, my point is, it’s really good we didn’t make this movie,” Barrett concludes. “It would just make you like this film less.”
“You never know,” Wingard adds. “Our careers could take a nosedive and one these days we might go, ‘Hey, we’re ready to do You’re Next 2.’ It’ll probably be a different movie that the one you just described.”
“It would have to be now,” Barrett chuckles.
Barrett also mention that Korean and Mexican producers had approached the studio about remaking You’re Next in their respective countries, but they never came to fruition.
Restored in 4K with Dolby Vision HDR, the You’re Next SteelBook contains all the new special features from Second Sight’s UK edition released last year along with the archival extras from the original Blu-ray.
The limited edition release features artwork by Matt Ryan Tobin.
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The work of legendary film producer Irwin Allen is getting a second shot at life with a planned series of modern reboots from Legendary Television, Deadline reports this afternoon.
Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend, Fringe, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) is on board to resurrect the classic science fiction TV shows Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, and The Time Tunnel.
Deadline notes in today’s exclusive report, “Goldsman and Legendary Television are crafting a unified vision for these stories, bringing modern sensibilities to their timeless appeal, and expanding upon his success in revitalizing the Star Trek universe.”
“Jon Jashni serves as executive producer, guiding this effort to reintroduce these popular franchises to a new generation, with Derek Thielges co-producing,” the report continues.
In Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968), “The submarine Seaview is commissioned to investigate the mysteries of the seas. Usually it finds more problems than answers.”
In Land of the Giants (1968-1970), “A spaceship crash-lands on a planet on which everything, including the human-like inhabitants, is twelve times the size of its counterpart on Earth.”
And in The Time Tunnel (1966-1967), “Two scientists with a secret time travel project find themselves trapped in the time stream and appearing in notable periods of history.”
All three classic 1960s television shows were created by Irwin Allen, who passed away in 1991. Irwin Allen also created “Lost in Space,” which recently received a reboot of its own.
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Coming to theaters this Spring from Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions, the psychological thriller The Surfer from director Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium, Nocebo) gets an official poster this afternoon, and it brings along with it the promise of a trailer tomorrow, February 26.
While you wait, check out the official poster for The Surfer below. It features rave reviews from websites including Collider, First Showing, and Irish Times, with the review blurbs calling the film “99 minutes of pure sun-beaten terror” and “a paranoid tale of hysteria and craziness.”
In The Surfer, when a man (Nicolas Cage) returns to his beachside hometown in Australia, many years since building a life for himself in the U.S., he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local gang of surfers who claim strict ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood.
Wounded, “The Surfer” decides to remain at the beach, declaring war against those in control of the bay. But as the conflict escalates, the stakes spin wildly out of control, taking “The Surfer” to the edge of his sanity.
Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsell, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn, Finn Little and Charlotte Maggi star alongside Nicolas Cage.
“Lorcan’s movie is a stunning visual experience with an incredible palette, coupled with Nicolas Cage at his absolute best,” Lionsgate’s Lauren Bixby said in a recent statement.
Thomas Martin wrote the screenplay for The Surfer.
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