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I Origins

August 9, 2026

This was never meant to be the film. It was supposed to be the backstory. After Fox Searchlight acquired Another Earth, co-writer Mike Cahill sold…

Heathers

August 8, 2026

It was his first screenplay and he had exactly one director in mind. Only Stanley Kubrick could pull off a three-hour black comedy about a…

Dark Days

August 7, 2026

They built a village beneath the streets of Manhattan. Shacks of scavenged wood, wired for electricity tapped off the city grid, furnished with salvaged couches…

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

August 5, 2026

Alone in her attic bedroom at night, a teenage girl pricks her finger, smears the blood across her laptop screen, and says the words three…

Equinox

August 4, 2026

Four young people find an ancient cursed book in the woods and are attacked by a horde of demons – more than a decade before…

Another Earth

August 3, 2026

She graduated valedictorian at Georgetown and turned down a job at Goldman Sachs to make movies. Hollywood saw a cute blonde, decorative, interchangeable. She decided…

The Ramen Girl

August 1, 2026

Brittany Murphy told her director she had only ever been hired to play cute or crazy. She doubted she could do anything else. So they…

Executive Action

July 30, 2026

It was the first major film to dramatize a conspiracy behind the Kennedy assassination. It was pulled from theaters within a month and not seen…

Welcome to the Dollhouse

July 28, 2026

He made his first feature for a studio, lost control of it, and hated the result so much he spent years telling people not to…

The Monster That Challenged the World

July 26, 2026

It had one of the grandest titles in science fiction history. Its monster turned out to be a giant snail. THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE…

Within the Woods

July 25, 2026

Two years before The Evil Dead (1981), Sam Raimi shot a 32-minute horror film over one weekend for $1,600. The plan: make something scary enough…

Hatching

July 22, 2026

She runs a family blog. Every post shows the perfect home, the perfect marriage, the perfect daughter. Her followers do not see that her twelve-year-old…

The Love Witch

July 21, 2026

In Obsession (2026), a hopeless young man casts a love spell on a woman and it threatens to destroy them both. 10 years ago, one…

Hell’s Belles

July 14, 2026

The film treats biker girl Cathy as a commodity. The actress who played her became a princess. HELL’S BELLES (1969) is an American International Pictures…

The Movie Orgy

July 12, 2026

Long before Gremlins, Joe Dante made a movie so tangled in other people’s copyrights that he could never legally sell it. For decades, the only…