The Halloween season is most definitely in full swing, with a whopping Ten brand new horror movies released this week across theaters, streamers including Netflix, and VOD outlets.
Here’s all the new horror that released September 16 – September 22, 2024!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
The latest movie from Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar (Satan’s Slaves, Impetigore, Nightmares & Daydreams), Grave Torture is now streaming on Netflix.
In Joko Anwar’s Grave Torture, “When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death — a fixation that leads her on a dark quest.”
Here’s the full plot synopsis from the film’s Wikipedia page: “After both of her parents became victims of suicide bombings, Sita became distrustful of religion. Since then, Sita’s goal in life has been only one: to find the most sinful person and when that person dies,...
Here’s all the new horror that released September 16 – September 22, 2024!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
The latest movie from Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar (Satan’s Slaves, Impetigore, Nightmares & Daydreams), Grave Torture is now streaming on Netflix.
In Joko Anwar’s Grave Torture, “When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death — a fixation that leads her on a dark quest.”
Here’s the full plot synopsis from the film’s Wikipedia page: “After both of her parents became victims of suicide bombings, Sita became distrustful of religion. Since then, Sita’s goal in life has been only one: to find the most sinful person and when that person dies,...
- 9/20/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
The Terminator Steelbook 4K Uhd from Warner Bros.
The Terminator will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a SteelBook 4K Uhd + Digital release on November 5 via Warner Bros. The film has been restored in 4K with Dolby Vision/Hdr and Dolby Atmos audio.
James Cameron directs the 1984 sci-fi action classic from a script he co-wrote with Gale Anne Hurd. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, and Paul Winfield star.
Special features include: Creating The Terminator: Visual Effects and Music; The Terminator: Closer to the Real Thing; Unstoppable Force: The Legacy of The Terminator; and deleted scenes.
Aaahh!! Real Monsters Figures from Mondo
’90s Nicktoons staple Aaahh!! Real Monsters turns 30 this year, and Mondo is...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
The Terminator Steelbook 4K Uhd from Warner Bros.
The Terminator will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a SteelBook 4K Uhd + Digital release on November 5 via Warner Bros. The film has been restored in 4K with Dolby Vision/Hdr and Dolby Atmos audio.
James Cameron directs the 1984 sci-fi action classic from a script he co-wrote with Gale Anne Hurd. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, and Paul Winfield star.
Special features include: Creating The Terminator: Visual Effects and Music; The Terminator: Closer to the Real Thing; Unstoppable Force: The Legacy of The Terminator; and deleted scenes.
Aaahh!! Real Monsters Figures from Mondo
’90s Nicktoons staple Aaahh!! Real Monsters turns 30 this year, and Mondo is...
- 9/20/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Blink Twice (Zoë Kravitz)
Over a close-up of a turtle, ominous sound design builds at such a deep frequency that the walls of a press-screening room in Beverly Hills began rattling. Once the shaking stopped and it’s realized this was not the third Los Angeles earthquake in as many weeks, the setup of Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice is doled out in impressively economical fashion: Rent is due for Frida (Naomie Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat). Rather than pay up and keep the wheels spinning in their going-nowhere-fast lives, Frida has a plan: retrieving a hidden wad of bills, she purchases gowns so she and Jess can crash a fancy gala after their waitress shifts end. Looking suitably glamorous,...
Blink Twice (Zoë Kravitz)
Over a close-up of a turtle, ominous sound design builds at such a deep frequency that the walls of a press-screening room in Beverly Hills began rattling. Once the shaking stopped and it’s realized this was not the third Los Angeles earthquake in as many weeks, the setup of Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice is doled out in impressively economical fashion: Rent is due for Frida (Naomie Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat). Rather than pay up and keep the wheels spinning in their going-nowhere-fast lives, Frida has a plan: retrieving a hidden wad of bills, she purchases gowns so she and Jess can crash a fancy gala after their waitress shifts end. Looking suitably glamorous,...
- 9/20/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
German filmmaker Tilman Singer’s second directorial project, Cuckoo, is an intense, thrilling, and yet vague experience, mostly because of the many unresolved matters by the end. But the director himself has been encouraging viewers to make whatever they want of his film, with no set goals or intentions set out by the makers. The film’s plot follows a teenager, Gretchen, who has to move to a small town in Germany with her father’s new family after the death of her mother. It is in this town that some extremely concerning paranormal occurrences start to take over the lives of Gretchen and her family, ultimately leading to an unlikely bond.
Spoiler Alert
What is the film about?
Cuckoo begins with a scene from inside a neatly decorated house, where the shadows on the wall tell a story that stands in stark contrast to its peaceful aesthetics. As a...
Spoiler Alert
What is the film about?
Cuckoo begins with a scene from inside a neatly decorated house, where the shadows on the wall tell a story that stands in stark contrast to its peaceful aesthetics. As a...
- 9/17/2024
- by Sourya Sur Roy
- DMT
Three brand new horror movies that were each released in theaters across the past month have made their way home today, a couple of them catching us totally by surprise this week.
Here are three straight-from-theaters frights you can watch at home now…
Cuckoo
After scaring up $6 million in theaters last month, Neon’s horror movie Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens is now available at home via Digital outlets.
You can rent the film for $9.99 or purchase it for $19.99.
Cuckoo will be also available on Blu-ray and DVD starting October 22.
Following his festival sensation Luz, German director Tilman Singer has once again succeeded in creating an atmospheric and visually outstanding horror trip with an original plot and perfidious twists. Cuckoo features Euphoria star Hunter Schafer in her first leading role, hailed as a “terrific final girl performance” alongside exhilarating performances from Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Jessica Henwick (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery...
Here are three straight-from-theaters frights you can watch at home now…
Cuckoo
After scaring up $6 million in theaters last month, Neon’s horror movie Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens is now available at home via Digital outlets.
You can rent the film for $9.99 or purchase it for $19.99.
Cuckoo will be also available on Blu-ray and DVD starting October 22.
Following his festival sensation Luz, German director Tilman Singer has once again succeeded in creating an atmospheric and visually outstanding horror trip with an original plot and perfidious twists. Cuckoo features Euphoria star Hunter Schafer in her first leading role, hailed as a “terrific final girl performance” alongside exhilarating performances from Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Jessica Henwick (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery...
- 9/17/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Cuckoo, a horror film from writer/director Tilman Singer that stars Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), Dan Stevens (The Guest), Jessica Henwick (Love and Monsters), Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo), and Jan Bluthardt (Tatort), was given a theatrical release on August 9th. One month later, it has now received a digital release and can be found on Amazon’s Prime Video, where it’s available to rent for $9.99 or purchase for $19.99.
JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols gave Cuckoo an 8/10 review you can read at This Link, and we have interviews with the lead actors Here.
The film has the following official synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma.
JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols gave Cuckoo an 8/10 review you can read at This Link, and we have interviews with the lead actors Here.
The film has the following official synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma.
- 9/17/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
After scaring up $6 million in theaters earlier this year, Neon’s horror movie Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens is now headed home to Digital, we’ve learned.
Award-winning film studio Neon announced today that audiences will be able to enjoy Cuckoo for digital purchase and rental starting tomorrow, September 17th.
The film will be also available on Blu-ray and DVD starting October 22.
Following his festival sensation Luz, German director Tilman Singer has once again succeeded in creating an atmospheric and visually outstanding horror trip with an original plot and perfidious twists. Cuckoo features Euphoria star Hunter Schafer in her first leading role, hailed as a “terrific final girl performance” alongside exhilarating performances from Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Jessica Henwick (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), and Greta Fernandez (A Thief’s Daughter).
Shot on 35 mm, the film was produced by Neon, Fiction Park, and Waypoint Entertainment. Cuckoo also...
Award-winning film studio Neon announced today that audiences will be able to enjoy Cuckoo for digital purchase and rental starting tomorrow, September 17th.
The film will be also available on Blu-ray and DVD starting October 22.
Following his festival sensation Luz, German director Tilman Singer has once again succeeded in creating an atmospheric and visually outstanding horror trip with an original plot and perfidious twists. Cuckoo features Euphoria star Hunter Schafer in her first leading role, hailed as a “terrific final girl performance” alongside exhilarating performances from Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Jessica Henwick (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), and Greta Fernandez (A Thief’s Daughter).
Shot on 35 mm, the film was produced by Neon, Fiction Park, and Waypoint Entertainment. Cuckoo also...
- 9/16/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Horror continues to be the surest of sure non-ip things at the box office, so it's a bummer that Tilman Singer's "Cuckoo" couldn't catch on theatrically like its distributor Neon's "Longlegs" did back in July. The film received mostly positive reviews (it currently holds a 77% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes), and boasted an acclaimed performance from "Euphoria" star Hunter Schafer, but it just couldn't generate the must-see buzz of Osgood Perkins' skin-crawling sensation. Dan Stevens turns in a far more interestingly unhinged performance than Nicolas Cage's one-note shriek-show in "Longlegs," but Stevens, for whatever reason (and it's getting fairly baffling by this point), isn't an A-lister. He's handsome, he's charming, he's ridiculously talented — what's the problem here?
In any event, since you probably missed "Cuckoo" during its brief theatrical run, you'll now be able to discover its nutty pleasures. As is typically the case with horror movies nowadays,...
In any event, since you probably missed "Cuckoo" during its brief theatrical run, you'll now be able to discover its nutty pleasures. As is typically the case with horror movies nowadays,...
- 9/16/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Der 35. Hessische Film- und Kinopreis wird zwar erst am 18. Oktober vergeben – aber schon jetzt steht fest, dass der Abend unter anderem im Zeichen der Serie „Die Zweiflers“ und des Kinofilms „Ellbogen“ stehen wird. Verkündet wurden auch die Nominierungen – und schon jetzt die Preisträger bei den Kinos.
„Die Zweiflers“ bringt Showrunner und Ensemble Auszeichnungen beim Hessischen Film- und Kinopreis ein (Credit: Ard Degeto/Hr/Turbokultur/Elliott Kreyenberg)
In knapp sechs Wochen wird in der Alten Oper Frankfurt der 35. Hessische Film- und Kinopreis vergeben – und schon jetzt können sich etliche Preisträger auf die Gala am 18. Oktober in besonderer Weise freuen. Denn im Rahmen einer Pressekonferenz gaben Kunst- und Kulturminister Timon Gremmels, Filmpreisjury-Mitglied Sara Fazilat, Cécile Schortmann als Jurymitglied für den Schauspieler:innenpreis des Hessischen Rundfunks und der Sprecher der Frankfurter Buchmesse, Torsten Casimir, nicht nur etliche Programmhighlights und die Nominierten, sondern auch schon einige Preisträger bekannt.
So steht bereits fest, dass der...
„Die Zweiflers“ bringt Showrunner und Ensemble Auszeichnungen beim Hessischen Film- und Kinopreis ein (Credit: Ard Degeto/Hr/Turbokultur/Elliott Kreyenberg)
In knapp sechs Wochen wird in der Alten Oper Frankfurt der 35. Hessische Film- und Kinopreis vergeben – und schon jetzt können sich etliche Preisträger auf die Gala am 18. Oktober in besonderer Weise freuen. Denn im Rahmen einer Pressekonferenz gaben Kunst- und Kulturminister Timon Gremmels, Filmpreisjury-Mitglied Sara Fazilat, Cécile Schortmann als Jurymitglied für den Schauspieler:innenpreis des Hessischen Rundfunks und der Sprecher der Frankfurter Buchmesse, Torsten Casimir, nicht nur etliche Programmhighlights und die Nominierten, sondern auch schon einige Preisträger bekannt.
So steht bereits fest, dass der...
- 9/9/2024
- by Marc Mensch
- Spot - Media & Film
Stars: Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas, Jessica Henwick, Dan Stevens | Written and Directed by Tilman Singer
Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) is 17, and reluctantly leaving America for the German Alps to live with her estranged father. While there, she experiences overwhelming gory visions and is constantly haunted by strange noises. To her surprise, it’s a condition that runs in her family… and it’s only just getting started.
If you were making a horror movie, there are likely two ways you’d approach doing so. The first option is to create a slick, detailed plot that is so streamlined it is absolutely foolproof — take Longlegs, for example — or you archaically throw different things at the metaphorical wall to see what sticks. Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo sits in the second category… and like any beautiful mess, some things pay off, while others don’t.
Cuckoo’s premise doesn’t seem particularly unique at first glance,...
Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) is 17, and reluctantly leaving America for the German Alps to live with her estranged father. While there, she experiences overwhelming gory visions and is constantly haunted by strange noises. To her surprise, it’s a condition that runs in her family… and it’s only just getting started.
If you were making a horror movie, there are likely two ways you’d approach doing so. The first option is to create a slick, detailed plot that is so streamlined it is absolutely foolproof — take Longlegs, for example — or you archaically throw different things at the metaphorical wall to see what sticks. Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo sits in the second category… and like any beautiful mess, some things pay off, while others don’t.
Cuckoo’s premise doesn’t seem particularly unique at first glance,...
- 8/29/2024
- by Jasmine Valentine
- Nerdly
Across 2024, Dan Stevens has been delivering performances that are increasingly… well, cuckoo. Whether dishing up gleefully gory carnage (and withering onion-based put-downs) in Abigail, or replacing kaiju canines as monster-dentist Trapper in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the former Downton heartthrob is in full embrace of the weird and wonderful. Offbeat horror Cuckoo continues that streak admirably. Here, he plays the seriously shifty Herr König, owner of a Bavarian holiday resort that simply emanates bad vibes. Whether menacingly invading people’s personal space (“Guten Tag!”), menacingly sniffing asparagus, or menacingly trilling a little wooden flute, it’s a delight to see Stevens in such playfully bonkers territory.
Except it’s only Hunter Schafer’s Gretchen who seems to clock how seriously off König is. In fact, the whole resort is odd. Guests keep throwing up. A weird signal is emitting from the nearby woods. A mysterious figure runs around in the dead of night.
Except it’s only Hunter Schafer’s Gretchen who seems to clock how seriously off König is. In fact, the whole resort is odd. Guests keep throwing up. A weird signal is emitting from the nearby woods. A mysterious figure runs around in the dead of night.
- 8/23/2024
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo uncovers a new monster in “Cuckoo.” The film follows a 17-year-old girl forced to move with her family to a European resort where things are not what they seem. The Tilman Singer (“Luz”) film stars Hunter Shafer, Marton Csokas, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick and more.
Read More: ‘Cuckoo’ Review: Hunter Schafer Thriller That’s For The Birds
Dan Stevens joins the podcast to discuss his role as the sinister Herr König, the owner of the mysterious resort.
Continue reading ‘Cuckoo’: Dan Stevens Talks New Horror, Supposed Marvel Casting, ‘Zero Day’ With Robert De Niro & More [The Discourse Podcast] at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘Cuckoo’ Review: Hunter Schafer Thriller That’s For The Birds
Dan Stevens joins the podcast to discuss his role as the sinister Herr König, the owner of the mysterious resort.
Continue reading ‘Cuckoo’: Dan Stevens Talks New Horror, Supposed Marvel Casting, ‘Zero Day’ With Robert De Niro & More [The Discourse Podcast] at The Playlist.
- 8/23/2024
- by Mike DeAngelo
- The Playlist
Rich Peppiatt’s comedy-drama Kneecap opens in 237 cinemas across England, Wales and Scotland through Curzon this weekend, following a strong two weeks in its native Ireland.
The film opened in Ireland and Northern Ireland on August 8 through Wildcard Distribution and held a top five spot for its first two weekends amid summer box office competition, reaching £557,610 as of Sunday, August 18.
Kneecap is a semi-fictionalised story of the eponymous Belfast-based hip-hop trio, and charts their rise from the Gaeltacht Quarter of West Belfast to becoming popular music artists.
Group members Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh all star as themselves.
The film opened in Ireland and Northern Ireland on August 8 through Wildcard Distribution and held a top five spot for its first two weekends amid summer box office competition, reaching £557,610 as of Sunday, August 18.
Kneecap is a semi-fictionalised story of the eponymous Belfast-based hip-hop trio, and charts their rise from the Gaeltacht Quarter of West Belfast to becoming popular music artists.
Group members Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh all star as themselves.
- 8/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo, which premiered at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in February of this year, stars Hunter Schafer—best known for her captivating role in the HBO teen drama series Euphoria—in one of her best performances yet. Dan Stevens, who has previously impressed in The Guest and Downton Abbey, delivers a chilling and magnetic performance. The film also features Jessica Henwick and Marton Csokas and newcomer Mila Lieu.
After her mother’s death, grieving teenager Gretchen (Schafer) moves with her father Luis (Csokas), stepmother Beth (Henwick) and mute half-sister Alma (Lieu) to a resort town in the Bavarian Alps. The family is there to help build a new hotel, overseen by the enigmatic Herr König (a gloriously sinister Dan Stevens), who offers Gretchen a job at the front desk to help her adjust.
Soon after their arrival, strange things begin to happen. Gretchen encounters multiple female...
After her mother’s death, grieving teenager Gretchen (Schafer) moves with her father Luis (Csokas), stepmother Beth (Henwick) and mute half-sister Alma (Lieu) to a resort town in the Bavarian Alps. The family is there to help build a new hotel, overseen by the enigmatic Herr König (a gloriously sinister Dan Stevens), who offers Gretchen a job at the front desk to help her adjust.
Soon after their arrival, strange things begin to happen. Gretchen encounters multiple female...
- 8/22/2024
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Neon’s horror movie “Longlegs,” directed by Osgood Perkins, has crossed the $100 million mark at the global box office to become the highest-grossing independent film release of the year.
With a gross of $72 million in the U.S. and Canada and a total $100 million at the global box office, it’s also the top-grossing R-rated horror film of 2024. It’s been a good summer for R-rated fare as “Deadpool & Wolverine” became the highest-grossing R-rated film in history Friday with $1.086 billion.
“Longlegs,” starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, also represents Neon’s highest-grossing film of all time after best picture winner “Parasite,” which earned $53 million. In just three weeks, “Longlegs” became the highest-grossing indie horror film of the past 10 years, surpassing “Talk to Me” and “Insidious Chapter 3.”
Perkins’ next project is Stephen King adaptation “The Monkey,” also with Neon, C2 and Black Bear. Theo James will star in the February release,...
With a gross of $72 million in the U.S. and Canada and a total $100 million at the global box office, it’s also the top-grossing R-rated horror film of 2024. It’s been a good summer for R-rated fare as “Deadpool & Wolverine” became the highest-grossing R-rated film in history Friday with $1.086 billion.
“Longlegs,” starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, also represents Neon’s highest-grossing film of all time after best picture winner “Parasite,” which earned $53 million. In just three weeks, “Longlegs” became the highest-grossing indie horror film of the past 10 years, surpassing “Talk to Me” and “Insidious Chapter 3.”
Perkins’ next project is Stephen King adaptation “The Monkey,” also with Neon, C2 and Black Bear. Theo James will star in the February release,...
- 8/16/2024
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Amid the theatrical release of their horror pic Cuckoo, starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, Waypoint Entertainment has announced the launch of new genre label Cweature Features.
Helmed by industry veterans Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum, the label will offer a collaborative sanctuary for filmmakers to create horrifying auteur content, supported by the expertise of its seasoned team. The name Cweature Features (pronounced “Kwee-Cha Fee-Chas”) was inspired by the tendency of Kao’s young children to mispronounce creature as “cweature,” with their teeth still coming in. He and his wife came to realize that the little ones resembled little “cweatures” themselves, and the moment evoked nostalgia for Kao, for the period in his childhood when his early love for all things scary began. Cweature Features will embrace the idea that horror is an experience that transcends age, blending fear with fun and not taking itself too seriously.
News of...
Helmed by industry veterans Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum, the label will offer a collaborative sanctuary for filmmakers to create horrifying auteur content, supported by the expertise of its seasoned team. The name Cweature Features (pronounced “Kwee-Cha Fee-Chas”) was inspired by the tendency of Kao’s young children to mispronounce creature as “cweature,” with their teeth still coming in. He and his wife came to realize that the little ones resembled little “cweatures” themselves, and the moment evoked nostalgia for Kao, for the period in his childhood when his early love for all things scary began. Cweature Features will embrace the idea that horror is an experience that transcends age, blending fear with fun and not taking itself too seriously.
News of...
- 8/12/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Following the box office success of Immaculate and especially Longlegs, Neon is back on the big screen with their latest horror offering Cuckoo, which has been earing rave reviews from critics and horror fans alike. It’s undoubtedly a far less mainstream horror movie than Longlegs, however, and it was only released in 1,503 theaters nationwide over the weekend.
How did Cuckoo fare in its opening weekend at the box office? It’s no Longlegs but Neon is surely smiling at the indie horror movie’s $3,012,500 opening weekend this morning. Interesting to note, Cuckoo is currently sitting in the #9 spot on the domestic box office charts, with Longlegs making another $2 million over the weekend and finding itself in the #10 spot.
Cuckoo is the latest horror movie from writer/director Tilman Singer (Luz). The film’s reported production budget was a mere $7 million. Hunter Schafer (“Euphoria”) stars.
In Cuckoo: “Reluctantly, 17-year-old...
How did Cuckoo fare in its opening weekend at the box office? It’s no Longlegs but Neon is surely smiling at the indie horror movie’s $3,012,500 opening weekend this morning. Interesting to note, Cuckoo is currently sitting in the #9 spot on the domestic box office charts, with Longlegs making another $2 million over the weekend and finding itself in the #10 spot.
Cuckoo is the latest horror movie from writer/director Tilman Singer (Luz). The film’s reported production budget was a mere $7 million. Hunter Schafer (“Euphoria”) stars.
In Cuckoo: “Reluctantly, 17-year-old...
- 8/12/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Cuckoo is looking at a $3+ million opening, not a Longlegs debut ($22 million) but on target for Neon’s Alpine-set horror starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens.
R-rated Cuckoo by Tilman Singer opened at 1,503 theaters for 9th place at the domestic box office. Schafer is great as troubled 17-year-old Gretchen, who reluctantly leaves her American home after her mother dies to live with her father and his new family just as they move to a resort in the beautiful German Alps. Owner Herr König takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister, while Gretchen herself is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret
Longlegs by Osgood Perkins is no. 10 in week 5 with an estimated $2 million on 1,310 screens for a hefty $71 million gross. It’s sticking around amid a steadier stream of studio wide releases and tentpoles.
Holdovers: Didi from Focus Features...
R-rated Cuckoo by Tilman Singer opened at 1,503 theaters for 9th place at the domestic box office. Schafer is great as troubled 17-year-old Gretchen, who reluctantly leaves her American home after her mother dies to live with her father and his new family just as they move to a resort in the beautiful German Alps. Owner Herr König takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister, while Gretchen herself is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret
Longlegs by Osgood Perkins is no. 10 in week 5 with an estimated $2 million on 1,310 screens for a hefty $71 million gross. It’s sticking around amid a steadier stream of studio wide releases and tentpoles.
Holdovers: Didi from Focus Features...
- 8/11/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine delivered $54.2m in its third weekend as the newly crowned $1bn global smash surged to $494.3m in North America, staying top ahead of a spectacular $50m debut for Sony’s romantic drama It Ends With Us.
It was a great weekend for the Ryan Reynolds-Blake Lively household that maintained an encouraging summer season and for the first time saw two films earn $50m or more in the same weekend in the traditionally slow month of August. Studios will confirm numbers on Monday.
Active in 4,330 locations, Deadpool & Wolverine overtook Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on $454m...
It was a great weekend for the Ryan Reynolds-Blake Lively household that maintained an encouraging summer season and for the first time saw two films earn $50m or more in the same weekend in the traditionally slow month of August. Studios will confirm numbers on Monday.
Active in 4,330 locations, Deadpool & Wolverine overtook Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on $454m...
- 8/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
Deep in the forests of Germany, there is a resort, a quaint getaway nestled right at the bottom of the Bavarian Alps. Step out of your car, and you immediately feel like you’re stepping into a postcard; you half expect men in lederhosen, hoisting large steins of Pilsner, to greet you as walk toward the lobby. It’s so picturesque that you might not notice the strange noise emanating from within the woods right next to the guest houses. It’s faint, but very shrill. Something feels weird about that sound,...
- 8/10/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
“Cuckoo” is here.
The new film from German director Tilman Singer, whose thesis film “Luz” became a sleeper hit, is absolutely bonkers. It follows Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), who, following the death of her mother, moves with her father (Marton Csokas), stepmother (Jessica Henwick) and young half-sister Alma (Mila Lieu), to a retreat in the Bavarian Alps. Her father and stepmother are meant to help the director of the retreat (Dan Stevens) on a new project. Of course, far more sinister implications begin to emerge, as Gretchen is chased one night by a mysterious woman, who also thwarts her attempts to escape with a guest of the hotel named Ed (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey).
What is really going on at the seemingly serene retreat? And will Gretchen make it out alive?
Let’s break down the ending of “Cuckoo.” Major spoiler warning, of course.
What’s the deal with the scary woman?
Apparently...
The new film from German director Tilman Singer, whose thesis film “Luz” became a sleeper hit, is absolutely bonkers. It follows Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), who, following the death of her mother, moves with her father (Marton Csokas), stepmother (Jessica Henwick) and young half-sister Alma (Mila Lieu), to a retreat in the Bavarian Alps. Her father and stepmother are meant to help the director of the retreat (Dan Stevens) on a new project. Of course, far more sinister implications begin to emerge, as Gretchen is chased one night by a mysterious woman, who also thwarts her attempts to escape with a guest of the hotel named Ed (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey).
What is really going on at the seemingly serene retreat? And will Gretchen make it out alive?
Let’s break down the ending of “Cuckoo.” Major spoiler warning, of course.
What’s the deal with the scary woman?
Apparently...
- 8/9/2024
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
The time has come to acknowledge Dan Stevens for the scream king that he is. This year alone, his genre credits include Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Abigail, and director Tilman Singer’s new film Cuckoo, where he plays a mysterious and undeniably villainous resort owner named Herr König. In the same way that scream queens have helped shape and define the fabric of horror and its feminine roles, recurring scream kings like Stevens have similarly influenced the spectrum of masculinity represented in the genre.
After shocking Downton Abbey fans when he turned in his resignation nearly 12 years ago, it was unclear what Stevens’ career future would look like. Thankfully for us horror fans, his desire for diverse creative experiences quickly drew him towards genre fare. With his disarming good looks and willingness to get weird, wild, and downright drenched in blood, Stevens brings a palpable enthusiasm to every project he touches.
After shocking Downton Abbey fans when he turned in his resignation nearly 12 years ago, it was unclear what Stevens’ career future would look like. Thankfully for us horror fans, his desire for diverse creative experiences quickly drew him towards genre fare. With his disarming good looks and willingness to get weird, wild, and downright drenched in blood, Stevens brings a palpable enthusiasm to every project he touches.
- 8/9/2024
- by Rachel Reeves
- bloody-disgusting.com
Two years have gone by since we heard that production had wrapped on Cuckoo, a new horror film from writer/director Tilman Singer that stars Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), Dan Stevens (The Guest), Jessica Henwick (Love and Monsters), Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo), and Jan Bluthardt (Tatort). Now our chance to see the film is upon us, as it has reached theatres today, August 9th. JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols gave Cuckoo an 8/10 review you can read at This Link, we have interviews with the lead actors Here, and earlier this week we shared a clip that gave Schafer’s character a terrifying biking experience. A press release noted that Dan Stevens turns in a “brilliant and terrifying” performance in the film, and he has described his role as a “delicious antagonist role.” In the new clip embedded above, we get a 90 second sample of Stevens’ performance, and it is quite creepy.
- 8/9/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Tilman Singer's "Cuckoo" is easily one of the best horror films of 2024, an unapologetically twisted horror story that will delight fans willing to let a movie take some truly wild swings and attack their senses. It's a movie that thrives in, as I previously described it, "breaking the rules, throwing traditional convention to the wind, and believing that logic is for the birds." I first saw "Cuckoo" during the Overlook Film Festival, where the film made a nest in my brain and has remained there ever since. I called it "a maddening head trip from start to finish" in my review, and remain absolutely dazzled by Singer's fearless commitment to embracing the beauty in the bizarre.
The film stars Hunter Schafer as 17-year-old Gretchen, who moves to the German Alps with her father and his new wife and daughter. They meet Herr König (Dan Stevens) upon arrival, a man...
The film stars Hunter Schafer as 17-year-old Gretchen, who moves to the German Alps with her father and his new wife and daughter. They meet Herr König (Dan Stevens) upon arrival, a man...
- 8/9/2024
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Hunter Schafer greets me with a confession. Beckoning me through a small gated fence into the winding maze of the Chateau Marmont’s lush, greenery-covered courtyard, she gives me a hug, then yawns. “There’s a lot happening right now,” she says. “I’ve barely gotten a handle on it.” There’s a gray vape in her hand, worn split-toe Tabis on her feet, and a wry smile on her face. “To be fully honest with you, I’d forgotten this was happening.”
It’s refreshing candor coming from a...
It’s refreshing candor coming from a...
- 8/9/2024
- by CT Jones
- Rollingstone.com
Tilman Singer’s debut feature Luz didn’t hide behind its style, exactly. But it did swaddle its weirdness in a comforting blanket of fuzz and neon. A film-school thesis so promising it was picked up for distribution abroad, Luz is the kind of movie that serves as a teaser...
- 8/8/2024
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
This week brings an eclectic mix of new horror movies, including Neon’s latest in theaters, the return of Terrifier 2‘s Lauren Lavera, and even an unofficial Mickey Mouse slasher movie.
Here’s all the new horror releasing August 5 – August 11, 2024!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
With the short film Steamboat Willie (1928) in the public domain, horror filmmakers are now free to play around with that early incarnation of Mickey Mouse, and that’s exactly what director Jamie Bailey is doing in the new indie slasher movie The Mouse Trap.
Gravitas Ventures released The Mouse Trap on VOD this past Tuesday.
In the horror movie, “It’s Alex’s 21st birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game...
Here’s all the new horror releasing August 5 – August 11, 2024!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
With the short film Steamboat Willie (1928) in the public domain, horror filmmakers are now free to play around with that early incarnation of Mickey Mouse, and that’s exactly what director Jamie Bailey is doing in the new indie slasher movie The Mouse Trap.
Gravitas Ventures released The Mouse Trap on VOD this past Tuesday.
In the horror movie, “It’s Alex’s 21st birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game...
- 8/8/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Cuckoo filmmaker Tilman Singer knows what he wants. That confidence was apparent when his film school thesis project, Luz, received distribution in 2018, kicking off the German writer-director’s promising future. The 70-minute supernatural horror film was made with the most modest of resources, but Singer’s talent was so evident that you couldn’t help but imagine what he’d be able to do with a healthy budget. It may have taken six years, but the answer is now here in the form of Cuckoo, which may or may not be connected to Luz. Hunter Schafer’s main character in Singer’s genre-bending horror film is named Gretchen Vanderkurt, while Luz’s Julia Riedler played a character named Nora Vanderkurt.
As of this moment, Singer is choosing to remain tight-lipped about the potential relationship between his first two features.
“I don’t want to answer that too concretely, but it’s a good last name.
As of this moment, Singer is choosing to remain tight-lipped about the potential relationship between his first two features.
“I don’t want to answer that too concretely, but it’s a good last name.
- 8/7/2024
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two years have gone by since we heard that production had wrapped on Cuckoo, a new horror film from writer/director Tilman Singer that stars Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), Dan Stevens (The Guest), Jessica Henwick (Love and Monsters), Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo), and Jan Bluthardt (Tatort). Now our chance to see the film is almost upon us, as it’s set to reach theatres on August 9th. JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols gave Cuckoo an 8/10 review you can read at This Link, and we have interviews with the lead actors Here – but if you need to see more before you decide whether or not you want to watch the movie, a clip has now dropped online that shows off 80 seconds of the film, giving a preview of a sequence where Schafer’s character has a terrifying experience while out riding a bicycle. You can check it out in the embed above.
- 8/6/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Writer/Director Tilman Singer continues his streak of experimental high-concept horror with his sophomore effort, Cuckoo. The filmmaker boldly marches to the beat of his own drum, examining heady themes of grief, reproduction, and gendered expectations through inventive, playful horror. That Cuckoo plays it fast and loose with details and plotting means that this body horror entry will likely polarize, but lovers of weird cinema will find a lot of charm in Singer’s latest.
After a peculiar cold open that won’t make sense until much later in the film, Cuckoo introduces seventeen-year-old Gretchen (Hunter Schafer). The moody teen wears her disdain plainly as she’s dragged by her father, Luis (Marton Csókás), stepmother Beth (Jessica Henwick), and her mute 7-year-old stepsister Alma (Mila Lieu) to the Bavarian Alps resort where Alma was conceived. Gretchen’s deep in the throes of grief over the loss of her mother, whose...
After a peculiar cold open that won’t make sense until much later in the film, Cuckoo introduces seventeen-year-old Gretchen (Hunter Schafer). The moody teen wears her disdain plainly as she’s dragged by her father, Luis (Marton Csókás), stepmother Beth (Jessica Henwick), and her mute 7-year-old stepsister Alma (Mila Lieu) to the Bavarian Alps resort where Alma was conceived. Gretchen’s deep in the throes of grief over the loss of her mother, whose...
- 8/6/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer is a convincing scream queen in this Germany-set chiller which prioritises mood over plot
There’s a dizzying amount to see and hear in German film-maker Tilman Singer’s brash style-over-substance horror Cuckoo, a film that pokes and prods and screeches with just about enough vim and volume to keep us mostly engaged. As the work of a newish-to-the-scene director, it’s a big, bold flex, and one that serves as more than ample evidence that he can be trusted to take on, and add flavour to, far more commercial movies. As proof of his ability as a writer it’s far less persuasive, a script that could generously be labelled opaque and more fairly called frequently incoherent.
How much one will be turned off by such hazy, haphazard plotting will be a matter of personal taste and in a period that’s seen the horror...
There’s a dizzying amount to see and hear in German film-maker Tilman Singer’s brash style-over-substance horror Cuckoo, a film that pokes and prods and screeches with just about enough vim and volume to keep us mostly engaged. As the work of a newish-to-the-scene director, it’s a big, bold flex, and one that serves as more than ample evidence that he can be trusted to take on, and add flavour to, far more commercial movies. As proof of his ability as a writer it’s far less persuasive, a script that could generously be labelled opaque and more fairly called frequently incoherent.
How much one will be turned off by such hazy, haphazard plotting will be a matter of personal taste and in a period that’s seen the horror...
- 8/6/2024
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
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Familiar faces dominate both the big and small screens this August. Beyond the return of favorite series like Industry, Emily in Paris, Hulu‘s Only Murders in the Building, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and the (slightly slept-on) Pachinko, TV welcomes the return of a troubled city’s most committed vigilante on Prime Video and a new comedy starring an NBA great on Peacock.
In...
Familiar faces dominate both the big and small screens this August. Beyond the return of favorite series like Industry, Emily in Paris, Hulu‘s Only Murders in the Building, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and the (slightly slept-on) Pachinko, TV welcomes the return of a troubled city’s most committed vigilante on Prime Video and a new comedy starring an NBA great on Peacock.
In...
- 8/6/2024
- by Keith Phipps
- Rollingstone.com
With temps climbing and the sun frankly being just too bright, there’s no better time to hide away in a dark, air conditioned movie theater. And luckily, August has delivered on giving us all some exciting films for us to see as we shelter-in-place (at the theater). This month we have everything from alpine horror to a couple of music led pics, and some home viewing including a vertigo-inducing romance. Check them out below.
Dandelion
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Theaters
Director: Nicole Riegel
Cast: Thomas Doherty, Kiki Layne, Melanie Nicholls-King
Why We’re Excited: Film Independent Spirit Awards alum for Best First Feature for her coming-of-age drama Holler, writer-director Riegel’s sophomore film premiered at SXSW. Part of the Film Independent Presents screening series, the drama follows the titular Dandelion (Layne), a struggling singer-songwriter from Cincinnati who takes a gig in South Dakota because...
Dandelion
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Theaters
Director: Nicole Riegel
Cast: Thomas Doherty, Kiki Layne, Melanie Nicholls-King
Why We’re Excited: Film Independent Spirit Awards alum for Best First Feature for her coming-of-age drama Holler, writer-director Riegel’s sophomore film premiered at SXSW. Part of the Film Independent Presents screening series, the drama follows the titular Dandelion (Layne), a struggling singer-songwriter from Cincinnati who takes a gig in South Dakota because...
- 8/5/2024
- by Su Fang Tham
- Film Independent News & More
Two years have gone by since we heard that production had wrapped on Cuckoo, a new horror film from writer/director Tilman Singer that stars Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), Dan Stevens (The Guest), Jessica Henwick (Love and Monsters), Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo), and Jan Bluthardt (Tatort). Now our chance to see the film is almost upon us, as it’s set to reach theatres on August 9th – and with that date swiftly approaching, we had the chance to sit down for interviews with Schafer, Stevens, and Henwick! You can hear what they had to say about Cuckoo in the video embedded above.
JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols gave Cuckoo an 8/10 review you can read at This Link.
Here’s the official synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family.
JoBlo’s own Tyler Nichols gave Cuckoo an 8/10 review you can read at This Link.
Here’s the official synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family.
- 8/5/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Cuckoo is one of the most Wtf movies you will see this year. And it’s astounding. Not just because of the wild moments, but because of how we get there. As the saying goes, it’s not always about the destination, it’s about the journey. The way Tilman Singer weaves this tale is incredible. It is intentionally paced and reserved, until it’s not. And then it goes completely nuts in a matter of moments.
But let’s back up. As the story starts, Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) has just arrived in Germany to live with her father (Marton Csokas), her stepmother Beth (Jessica Henwick) and her mute half-sister Alma (Mila Lieu). Her mother has recently passed away and Gretchen is feeling untethered. She has lost the person closest to her, left everything she knows behind, and is now in another country with a family that she feels tenuously connected to,...
But let’s back up. As the story starts, Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) has just arrived in Germany to live with her father (Marton Csokas), her stepmother Beth (Jessica Henwick) and her mute half-sister Alma (Mila Lieu). Her mother has recently passed away and Gretchen is feeling untethered. She has lost the person closest to her, left everything she knows behind, and is now in another country with a family that she feels tenuously connected to,...
- 8/2/2024
- by Emily von Seele
- DailyDead
The dog days of summer have arrived, but as we wind down the summer of 2024, movie theaters are already looking to the spookiest month of all: October. This August, studios are doubling down on horror with new movies from M. Night Shyamalan and a biopic about Ronald Reagan starring Dennis Quaid.
- 8/1/2024
- by Matt Schimkowitz
- avclub.com
Tilman Singer premiered his hypnotic debut feature Luz at the 2017 Fantasia Film Festival to critical acclaim and he returns this year after a buzz-building festival run with his ultra-weird, super-spooky sophomore horror Cuckoo. Starring Dan Stevens (Abigail), Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), and one hell of a scary villain, Cuckoo is a mind-scrambling experience of pure terror, and truly one of the strangest movies you’re bound to see this year.
This slow-release cinematic capsule of eerie insanity unfolds over the backdrop of a secluded resort in the German Alps. Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) and her family have relocated to this quite mountain escape hidden from the world, while her parents help to construct a new addition to the resort for the charming and alarming owner Mr. Konig (Dan Stevens). All the while, an unseen presence haunts the forest at night. It’s cries in the distance are the only warning that something awful is about to happen,...
This slow-release cinematic capsule of eerie insanity unfolds over the backdrop of a secluded resort in the German Alps. Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) and her family have relocated to this quite mountain escape hidden from the world, while her parents help to construct a new addition to the resort for the charming and alarming owner Mr. Konig (Dan Stevens). All the while, an unseen presence haunts the forest at night. It’s cries in the distance are the only warning that something awful is about to happen,...
- 7/31/2024
- by Jonathan Dehaan
Fresh off a recent turn in “The Hunger Games” universe at the end of last year and a cameo in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” earlier this summer, Hunter Schafer is quickly returning back to the silver screen with “Luz” filmmaker Tilman Singer’s “Cuckoo.” The film centers on 17-year-old Gretchen (Schafer), who is forced to leave her American home to live with her father in a resort in the German Alps with his new wife and family, before things very quickly spin out of control into a surreal horror nightmare.
Three months after the Season 2 finale of “Euphoria” aired, Schafer flew to Germany to star in her very first feature film. “Looking back on the experience overall, the biggest difference is that I started ‘Euphoria’ in 2019 and it’s still going now. And then with something like ‘Cuckoo,’ with this experience, it lives solely in those three months [of production], at...
Three months after the Season 2 finale of “Euphoria” aired, Schafer flew to Germany to star in her very first feature film. “Looking back on the experience overall, the biggest difference is that I started ‘Euphoria’ in 2019 and it’s still going now. And then with something like ‘Cuckoo,’ with this experience, it lives solely in those three months [of production], at...
- 7/29/2024
- by Vincent Perella
- Indiewire
La estrella de ‘Euphoria’ en la nueva película de Neon. © Neon
Neon ha publicado el nuevo tráiler y póster de “Cuckoo”, una película de terror psicológico que se proyectará en la 57ª edición del Festival de Sitges.
Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), de 17 años, abandona a regañadientes su hogar americano para vivir con su padre, que acaba de mudarse a un complejo turístico en los Alpes alemanes con su nueva familia. Al llegar a su futura residencia, son recibidos por el Sr. König (Dan Stevens), el jefe de su padre, que se interesa inexplicablemente por Alma (Mila Lieu), la hermanastra muda de Gretchen. Algo no cuadra en este tranquilo paraíso vacacional. Gretchen se ve acosada por ruidos extraños y visiones sangrientas hasta que descubre un espeluznante secreto que también afecta a su propia familia.
La película, una coproducción estadounidense y alemana, está protagonizada por Hunter Schafer, conocida por interpretar a Jules Vaughn...
Neon ha publicado el nuevo tráiler y póster de “Cuckoo”, una película de terror psicológico que se proyectará en la 57ª edición del Festival de Sitges.
Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), de 17 años, abandona a regañadientes su hogar americano para vivir con su padre, que acaba de mudarse a un complejo turístico en los Alpes alemanes con su nueva familia. Al llegar a su futura residencia, son recibidos por el Sr. König (Dan Stevens), el jefe de su padre, que se interesa inexplicablemente por Alma (Mila Lieu), la hermanastra muda de Gretchen. Algo no cuadra en este tranquilo paraíso vacacional. Gretchen se ve acosada por ruidos extraños y visiones sangrientas hasta que descubre un espeluznante secreto que también afecta a su propia familia.
La película, una coproducción estadounidense y alemana, está protagonizada por Hunter Schafer, conocida por interpretar a Jules Vaughn...
- 7/24/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Having already played a blinder with their cryptic marketing for one noodle-twisting psychological horror this year, Osgood Perkins' Nic Cage x Maika Monroe joint Longlegs, American indie label Neon look set to make it two for two in 2024 with Tilman Singer's Cuckoo. Following a curiosity grabbing, The Shining evocative first trailer back in April, the latest look at the Luz filmmaker's Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens starring scarer continues to only hint at the horrors that Singer has in store here — but those hints have us hooked. Check it out:
Stevens' Mr. König menacingly playing woodwind. An investigator looking into a mysterious, not-entirely-human-looking woman. An increasingly bloodied and broken Gretchen (Schafer) screaming, shouting, and getting their final girl on amidst the eerily tranquil climes of the German Alps. What could it all mean? Frankly, at this stage, we haven't the foggiest. And yet, as with that first tantalising teaser,...
Stevens' Mr. König menacingly playing woodwind. An investigator looking into a mysterious, not-entirely-human-looking woman. An increasingly bloodied and broken Gretchen (Schafer) screaming, shouting, and getting their final girl on amidst the eerily tranquil climes of the German Alps. What could it all mean? Frankly, at this stage, we haven't the foggiest. And yet, as with that first tantalising teaser,...
- 7/23/2024
- by Jordan King
- Empire - Movies
Neon has released the new trailer for Cuckoo, the horror film starring Hunter Schafer. Written and directed by Tilman Singer, the movie opens in theaters on August 9, 2024.
A Fiction Park and Waypoint Entertainment production, Cuckoo was rated R by the MPA for violence, bloody images, language, and brief teen drug use.
Hunter Schafer in Cuckoo
In the movie, 17-year-old Gretchen reluctantly leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister, Alma.
Something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Strange noises and bloody visions plague Gretchen until she discovers a shocking secret concerning her family.
Dan Stevens in Cuckoo
Following his festival sensation Luz, German director Tilman Singer...
A Fiction Park and Waypoint Entertainment production, Cuckoo was rated R by the MPA for violence, bloody images, language, and brief teen drug use.
Hunter Schafer in Cuckoo
In the movie, 17-year-old Gretchen reluctantly leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister, Alma.
Something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Strange noises and bloody visions plague Gretchen until she discovers a shocking secret concerning her family.
Dan Stevens in Cuckoo
Following his festival sensation Luz, German director Tilman Singer...
- 7/23/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Two years have gone by since we heard that production had wrapped on Cuckoo, a new horror film from writer/director Tilman Singer that stars Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), Dan Stevens (The Guest), Jessica Henwick (Love and Monsters), Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo), and Jan Bluthardt (Tatort). Now our chance to see the film is almost upon us, as it’s set to reach theatres on August 9th – and with that date just a couple of weeks away, a new trailer has arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above.
Here’s the official synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma.
Here’s the official synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma.
- 7/23/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
"If I were you, I wouldn't get hurt even more..." Neon has unveiled a second official trailer for Cuckoo, the chilling German horror film arriving in theaters soon. It first premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival and also played at SXSW earlier this year. Cuckoo is the second feature from German filmmaker Tilman Singer after Luz. Gretchen travels to the German Alps with her father & stepmother, where she comes across dark secrets. She hears strange noises and is plagued by visions of a weird woman chasing after her, drawn into a conspiracy involving bizarre experiments by the resort’s owner that echoes back generations... Following his festival hit Luz, Singer has once again succeeded in creating an atmospheric & visually outstanding horror trip. Shot on 35mm, this film stars Euphoria's Hunter Schafer alongside a brilliant and terrifying Dan Stevens in it. It also features Jessica Henwick, Marton Csókás, Jan Bluthardt,...
- 7/23/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Up next from writer/director Tilman Singer (Luz) is Neon’s Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer (“Euphoria”), and a brand new official trailer has been unleashed this afternoon.
Look for Cuckoo to arrive in theaters nationwide on August 9, 2024.
Watch Official Trailer #2 for Neon’s Cuckoo down below.
In Cuckoo: “Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family.”
Dan Stevens (The Guest), Jessica Henwick (Underwater), Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo) and Jan Bluthardt (Luz) also star in Cuckoo.
Look for Cuckoo to arrive in theaters nationwide on August 9, 2024.
Watch Official Trailer #2 for Neon’s Cuckoo down below.
In Cuckoo: “Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family.”
Dan Stevens (The Guest), Jessica Henwick (Underwater), Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo) and Jan Bluthardt (Luz) also star in Cuckoo.
- 7/23/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Neon's latest wild horror movie, "Cuckoo," has just dropped a new trailer featuring more glimpses at Dan Stevens and Hunter Schafer's already-acclaimed performances. The enigmatic yet apparently entertaining film debuted at the Berlin International Film Fest this year, and /Film's B.J. Colangelo dubbed it a "screeching ride of repulsive sci-fi body horror" in her positive festival review back in April. Since then, strong opinions surrounding the movie have multiplied, with /Film's Bill Bria describing "Cuckoo" as "profoundly strange, nightmarish, and moving in equal measure" on Twitter. Currently, the film holds an 81% approval rating from critics cited on Rotten Tomatoes.
Written and directed by "Luz" filmmaker Tilman Singer, "Cuckoo" tells the story of a teen whose move to the Bavarian Alps is met with a series of sinister events. The movie marks the first horror role for "Euphoria" breakout star Schafer (though Yorgos Lanthimos' "Kinds of Kindness" certainly toes...
Written and directed by "Luz" filmmaker Tilman Singer, "Cuckoo" tells the story of a teen whose move to the Bavarian Alps is met with a series of sinister events. The movie marks the first horror role for "Euphoria" breakout star Schafer (though Yorgos Lanthimos' "Kinds of Kindness" certainly toes...
- 7/23/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
The 18th edition of the Motelx – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival is set to return to Cinema São Jorge from 10th to 16th September 2024. With a programme brimming with exclusive premieres, revisits of classics, and innovative horror experiences, this year’s festival promises to be a spectacular celebration of the genre.
Among the highlights is the world premiere of Sasquatch Sunset, directed by David and Nathan Zellner and executive produced by Ari Aster. This unique film offers a bizarre and rigorous portrayal of the daily life of a Bigfoot family. Another major highlight is In a Violent Nature by Canadian director Chris Nash and Oddity, a paranormal nightmare by Irish director Damian Mc Carthy, both premiering in Portugal.
This year’s festival also marks the debut of Edgar Pêra’s Telepathic Letters, an AI-driven documentary-essay that explores the connections between Fernando Pessoa and H. P. Lovecraft. Additionally, the festival will feature Cuckoo,...
Among the highlights is the world premiere of Sasquatch Sunset, directed by David and Nathan Zellner and executive produced by Ari Aster. This unique film offers a bizarre and rigorous portrayal of the daily life of a Bigfoot family. Another major highlight is In a Violent Nature by Canadian director Chris Nash and Oddity, a paranormal nightmare by Irish director Damian Mc Carthy, both premiering in Portugal.
This year’s festival also marks the debut of Edgar Pêra’s Telepathic Letters, an AI-driven documentary-essay that explores the connections between Fernando Pessoa and H. P. Lovecraft. Additionally, the festival will feature Cuckoo,...
- 7/23/2024
- by Emily Bennett
- Love Horror
Today, AMC Networks announced that Dan Stevens will lead and executive-produce the third installment of the lauded horror anthology The Terror: Devil in Silver. Writing is led by executive producers Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and author Victor Lavalle, who wrote the celebrated novel on which the season is based.
Emmy-nominated director Karyn Kusama also executive produces and will direct the first two episodes.
Dan Stevens will play Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself.
As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the...
Emmy-nominated director Karyn Kusama also executive produces and will direct the first two episodes.
Dan Stevens will play Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself.
As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the...
- 7/18/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Dan Stevens is ready to draw summoning circles in a psychiatric hospital for The Terror: Devil in Silver, the third chapter of AMC Networks‘ The Terror horror anthology. Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and author Victor Lavalle co-wrote The Terror: Devil in Silver, based on Lavalle’s novel. The story finds Stevens dabbling with forces beyond his control as pieces of his sanity break away.
Here’s a synopsis for Devil in Silver courtesy of Amazon:
New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.
Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. In...
Here’s a synopsis for Devil in Silver courtesy of Amazon:
New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.
Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. In...
- 7/18/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Dan Stevens has been tapped as the lead and executive producer on the third installment of AMC Networks’ The Terror horror anthology, Devil in Silver.
Written by Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and author Victor Lavalle, on whose novel the season is based, The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of Pepper (Stevens), a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but...
Written by Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and author Victor Lavalle, on whose novel the season is based, The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of Pepper (Stevens), a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but...
- 7/18/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Fresh off the success of last weekend’s “Longlegs,” Neon announced Tuesday that it has acquired worldwide rights to the “Shelby Oaks,” which was written and directed by filmmaker and YouTube creator Chris Stuckmann. It marks Stuckmann’s feature directorial debut. The film is described as a documentary-found footage crossover. It will have its world premiere at Fantasia Festival on Saturday. Neon will release the film theatrically in the U.S. and handle international sales.
“Shelby Oaks” stars Camille Sullivan (“Hunter Hunter”), Brendan Sexton III (“Don’t Breathe 2”) and Sarah Durn (“Where the Crawdads Sing”). It follows a woman named Mia (Sullivan) as she frantically searches for her sister Riley (Durn), who ominously disappeared in the last tape of her investigative series, “Paranormal Paranoids.” Stuckmann’s film benefitted from a 2022 Kickstarter campaign, which raised $1.4 million for the film in under a month, making it the most-funded horror film in the service’s history.
“Shelby Oaks” stars Camille Sullivan (“Hunter Hunter”), Brendan Sexton III (“Don’t Breathe 2”) and Sarah Durn (“Where the Crawdads Sing”). It follows a woman named Mia (Sullivan) as she frantically searches for her sister Riley (Durn), who ominously disappeared in the last tape of her investigative series, “Paranormal Paranoids.” Stuckmann’s film benefitted from a 2022 Kickstarter campaign, which raised $1.4 million for the film in under a month, making it the most-funded horror film in the service’s history.
- 7/16/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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