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Our run of Gay Icons and Anniversaries continues. After kicking off October with discussions of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (listen), Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), and Bob Clark‘s Black Christmas (listen), we’re celebrating Halloween early with Kevin S. Tenney‘s Night of the Demons (1988).

In the film, Judy (Cathy Podewell) is lured by her prospective boyfriend Jay (Lance Fenton) to a party at Hull House, hosted by the school weirdo Angela (Amelia Kinkade) and her boy crazy best friend Suzanne (Linnea Quigley). Along with friends Frannie, Max, Stooge and Helen, as well as Judy’s secret admirer, Sal (William Gallo), the party will accidentally unleash Evil Dead-esque demons that kill and infect the partygoers.

Can the group survive until dawn? Or will Angela and the other demons dance and lipstick boob them to their doom?

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2024 has delivered a lot of remarkably good thriller movies that were praised by critics and audiences, with some of them already even making it to the list of this year's best.

You might be looking for recommendations on some of the best thriller movies of 2024 that are not for the faint of heart. Fortunately, we have a list for you.

Trap

The new M. Night Shyamalan film follows a serial killer (played by Josh Harnett) who has to evade the authorities while attending the concert of a pop superstar with her daughter.

It received mixed reviews from critics, but Hartnett's leading performance was widely praised. In classic Shyamalan fashion, Trap offers entertaining thrills that will put you at the edge of your seat throughout its 105-minute runtime.

The film will be available on Max starting this...

Bitchin’ Barb.

After kicking off October with discussions of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (listen) and Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), we’re tackling another juggernaut of horror history with a look at Bob Clark‘s Black Christmas.

Black Christmas follows sorority sisters Jess (Olivia Hussey), Barb (Margot Kidder) and Phyl (Andrea Martin) as they begin to receive anonymous, obscene phone calls in the days leading up to Christmas. When their other sorority sister Clare (Lynne Griffin) goes missing from the house, the girls frantically search for her, unaware that the mysterious caller has made a home for himself in their attic.

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Christopher Abbott is joining the Blumhouse cinematic monster universe with horror film “Wolf Man.”

The “Poor Things” star and “Girls” alum leads the Blumhouse and Universal feature about a werewolf. Julia Garner also stars.

Ryan Gosling produces the film, which is directed by “Saw” co-creator and “The Invisible Man” helmer Leigh Whannell. Gosling was originally cast in the lead role before exiting the project; Abbott took over the titular part.

Abbott and Garner previously starred in “Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene” together in 2011.

Director Whannell is a Blumhouse staple, having previously directed “The Invisible Man,” “Upgrade,” and “Insidious: Chapter 3″ for the studio.

Whannell co-wrote the “Wolf Man” script with Corbett Tuck, Lauren Schuker Blum, and Rebecca Angelo. Jason Blum is producing the film, a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production, with Gosling Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner, and Whannell executive producing.

The official synopsis reads: “The film follows Blake (Abbott), a San Francisco husband and father,...

Slaughterhouse Rules.

Back in mid-September, we began a themed collection of episodes featuring Gay Icons and Anniversaries. Trace and I kicked off the series with a revisit of Jennifer’s Body (listen) before delving into Jonathan Glazer’s controversial Birth (listen), and David Fincher’s Gone Girl (listen) for its 10th anniversary.

Now it’s time to tackle the 50th anniversary of Tobe Hooper‘s classic text, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It’s a film that hardly needs an introduction, but in case folks have never seen it, the film follows a van full of teenagers travelling through Texas to ensure the resting site of a relative hasn’t been disturbed by a recent wave of grave robberies.

Of course what they do is run afoul of a family of men who have resorted to murder and cannibalism following the closure of the slaughterhouse. With masked killer Leatherface doing most of the heavy lifting,...

Prequel films are always an interesting challenge. How do you tell a portion of a story that the viewer already knows? How do you give that story tension? How do you make it feel necessary, especially when the story in question is one of horror’s great films? It’s always interesting to be able to play in somebody else’s sandbox, but it does limit the storytellers in what they can and can’t do. It’s daunting, to be sure. Some prequel films rise to the occasion, and others sink. Writers Christian White, Skylar James and Natalie Erika James (who also directed) certainly had a challenge on their hands when they took on a prequel story for Rosemary’s Baby, but they delivered something unique that largely manages to hold its own in its predecessor’s sandbox.

Apartment 7A takes place in the months preceding the events of Rosemary’s Baby,...

“Nobody Wants This” debuted at No. 1 on Luminate’s weekly rankings of streaming original viewership, tying last week’s top title — “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” — each with a strong 1.7 billion minutes.

A rom-com series starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This” achieved that total in its first full week of availability on Netflix, while “Monsters” was in its second full week, having debuted at No. 1 with 2.7 billion minutes watched during the Sept. 20-26 viewing window.

The third-most-watched title of the week was Netflix's Vince McMahon docuseries "Mr. McMahon," which hit 765.6 million mintues watched in its first full week of availability. It was followed by Season 2 of "Tulsa King," which released its third episode during this window and hit 568.5 million minutes watched. "Tulsa King" Season 1 also made the chart this week, landing at No. 7 with 228.5 million minutes watched.

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“Apartment 7A”, is the new live-action supernatural feature prequel to “Rosemary’s Baby”, directed by Natalie Erika James, starring Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Kevin McNally, Amy Leeson Rosemary, Scott Hume , Jim Sturgess, Marli Siu, Rosy McEwen, Andrew Buchan and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, now streaming on Paramount+:

“…’Terry Gionoffrio’, came to New York to achieve her dream of becoming a stage performer.

“However, an injury during a performance completely changed her life’s trajectory.

“In an attempt to welcome a new chapter in her life, she moves into an apartment owned by the ‘Castevets’.

“She then realized the elderly couple were not what they appeared to be…

“…and that they may have done something horrible to the previous tenant…”

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After closing out September with a re-do of Jennifer’s Body (listen), a film we covered in one of our earliest episodes, and a discussion of Jonathan Glazer’s controversial Birth (listen), we’re continuing our theme of Anniversary/Diva Worship with a look at David Fincher‘s Gone Girl (2014).

Gone Girl sees Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), the inspiration for the beloved series of “Amazing Amy” children’s books, go missing. The prime suspect is her husband Nick (Ben Affleck), though he is as shocked at his wife’s disappearance as the police are.

As the days go by and more clues are unearthed, it becomes clear that Nick isn’t honest as he seems, and that the marriage he had with Amy may not have been as blissful as everyone thought.

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2024 is (a). almost over and (b). has officially entered its spooky season. So by now, we can pinpoint some horror trends. What is scaring us this year?

Both "Immaculate" and "The First Omen" are about young women forced by religious fanatics to bear unwanted and monstrous pregnancies. Due to the movies' overlapping subject matter and tight release window, they were named the harbingers of a pro-choice horror wave. America did recently strip people's rights to abortion by judicial fiat, after all. Even Coralie Fargeat's "The Substance," a body horror film about how beauty standards devalue aging women, is a cousin to these films. (Fargeat's film has got the most disgusting "birth" scene that doesn't star a chestburster.)

However, one should not forget the religious settings of "Immaculate" and "The First Omen," for this is where the two 2024 horror trends intersect.

Bubble, boil, steam, and burn, it’s time to watch those film reels turn. That’s right, it’s October, which means it’s almost Halloween, but the minute the clock struck midnight on the 1st, we here at IndieWire were already decked in black and frightening our office mates at Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. While carving pumpkins, eating candy, and donning elaborate costumes may be how most ring in this special time of year, we believe there’s no better celebration of spooky season than entering a dark theater and sharing a few collective screams with strangers.

This month, repertory theaters in New York and Los Angeles have plenty of offerings to get those lungs expanding and heart beating. From black-and-white classics like Don Siegel’s “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956) to modern monster favorites such as “The Mummy” (1999) starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, don’t miss...

When writer/director Natalie Erika James’ feature debut, the psychological horror drama Relic, was about to have its premiere, we heard that James was hoping to make a folk horror movie called Drum Wave, which would be about a pianist who goes to a remote island in Japan where she is forced to confront motherhood issues as the town holds its annual fertility festival. Drum Wave hasn’t made it into production yet, but James did direct the Rosemary’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A in the meantime – and during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she revealed that she’ll soon be heading into production on a psychological horror film called Saccharine!

During the interview, which was first posted four days ago, James said she would begin shooting her next movie in six weeks. When asked for more information on the upcoming project, she replied, “I’m doing another psychological horror,...

Apartment 7A is now on Paramount+, and it serves as a prequel to the iconic horror film Rosemary's Baby––though one connection in particular is causing some to question its continuity.

The new film follows Terry Gionoffrio, a character who only plays a brief role in the original film. She meets Rosemary early on in the laundry room, but the next time audiences see her, she's dead after having jumped out a window.

How she got to that point, and how it relates to everything Rosemary went through, is the driving point of the movie.

Read full article on The Direct.

[Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for “Apartment 7A.”]

Musicals and horror have a surprisingly deeper connection than you’d imagine. After all, “Sweeney Todd” is a masterpiece about a serial killer and cannibalism; “The Phantom of the Opera” is about a disfigured madman stalking a soprano and murdering standersby. So placing “Rosemary’s Baby” prequel “Apartment 7A” within the world of ’60s Broadway makes sense beyond just central character Terry Gionoffrio’s career as a dancer.

We meet Terry (played by Victoria Vetri) in “Rosemary’s Baby” for a brief scene before her abrupt death by defenestration. Here, she’s played by Julia Garner as an ambitious counterpart to John Cassavetes’ eager actor, Guy, in Roman Polanski’s film. Sidetracked by a career-threatening injury and taken in by those insidious old devil worshippers the Castavets, Terry finds her life — and career — on the upswing. So what if it takes a little tannis root to get cast in a Broadway musical?...

Our top pick this week, “Inside Out 2,” is a shoo-in for a Best Animated Feature nomination, though it will face some stiff competition for the actual trophy from “The Wild Robot.” Pixar’s film does have the advantage of being the highest-grossing movie of the year and the highest-grossing animated film of all time. The box office doesn’t necessarily equal quality, but it does equal people actually seeing the movie, which is most of the battle.

The sequel to 2015’s Best Animated Feature winner is set inside the mind of Riley, who was 11 in the first movie and is now 13, which means she’s having some feelings she’s never felt before. This means Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler) and her fellow emotions have to deal with the arrival of these personified new emotions, which are led by Anxiety (voiced by Maya Hawke). Will Anxiety take over and leave no room for Joy,...

Plot: A struggling dancer finds herself drawn into dark forces by a peculiar couple promising her fame.

Review: I would consider Rosemary’s Baby to be one of the greatest films of all time, horror or otherwise. Mia Farrow’s performance is absolutely sublime and paranoia can be felt in nearly every frame of celluloid. There’s plenty of intrigue with the cult of Satan that is deadset on birthing the Antichrist. It’s such a descent into madness and shows the extremes of gaslighting (to say the least). So it’s easy to be a bit nervous about a prequel coming along for such a beloved film. But then you add Julia Garner in the lead role and they seem to be on the right path. If only they’d kept on that path…

Rather than following a couple desperate for a baby, Apartment 7A follows a single lady, Terry...

The Halloween season is in full swing and October is right around the corner. What does that mean? Well, it means we’re about to be hit with an absolute deluge of new horror movies.

October is always loaded up on fresh frights on the small screen and big screen, and that’s why we’ve put together the ultimate Halloween Movie Guide with a spotlight on 31 New Horror Movies releasing throughout October. 31 days… 31 new movies… it seems only right.

Read on for Bloody Disgusting’s Halloween 2024 Movie Guide!

Bloody Disgusting’s Halloween Movie Guide is presented by Apartment 7A starring Julia Garner. Add the new psychological thriller to your Halloween watch list.

Crackcoon – October 1 – Screambox

Just when you thought it was safe to take out the trash… The Screambox Original horror-comedy Crackcoon has been fittingly described as “Rocket Raccoon meets Cocaine Bear.” In the film directed by Brad Twigg,...

Julia Garner as Terry Gionoffrio and Dianne Wiest as Minnie Castavet in ‘Apartment 7A’ (Photo Credit: Gareth Gatrell/Paramount+)

Any performance set in the world of Rosemary’s Baby is going to pale compared to Mia Farrow. That’s just a given. Apartment 7A director and co-writer Natalie Erika James avoided a direct comparison, focusing the prequel on a minor but pivotal character from Ira Levin’s 1967 novel and Roman Polanski’s 1968 film.

For those needing a brief refresher, Rosemary (Farrow) encountered a young woman named Terry Gionoffrio (Victoria Vetri) in the Bramford’s creepy laundry room. Both were weirded out by the place and promised to meet up to wash their clothes in the future so they wouldn’t have to be alone. Terry also told Rosemary about the Castevets, the friendly elderly couple who took her in.

Unfortunately for the future mom of the Devil’s baby, Terry...

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Apartment 7A is a psychological horror thriller film directed by Natalie Erika James who also co-wrote the film with Christian White and Skylar James. Based on the 1967 novel titled Rosemary’s Baby by author Ira Levin, the Paramount+ film serves as a prequel to the iconic 1968 film by Roman Polanski. Apartment 7A is set in 1965 in New York City and it follows the story of a young dancer who rents a room from an elderly couple after suffering from a serious injury that ends her career. Apartment 7A stars Julia Garner, Dianne West, Kevin McNally, Jim Sturgess, Marli Siu, Rosy McEwen, Amy Leeson, Scott Hume, and Andrew Buchan. So, if you loved the psychological horror, edge-of-the-seat thrills, and compelling characters in Apartment 7A here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Rosemary’s Baby...

The walls of the Bramford held secrets long before Rosemary's arrival. As struggling young dancer Terry Gionoffrio finds herself in the infamous building under the care of a strange but well-connected older couple who promises her a chance at fame and fortune, she's drawn in by dark forces that will force her to decide how badly she wants the success she dreams of. "Apartment 7A" welcomes you: three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner ("Ozark") leads the cast of the "Rosemary's Baby" prequel and Paramount+ Original movie, which premieres on Friday, Sept. 27. You can watch with 7-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus.

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The new psychological thriller Paramount+ Original "Apartment 7A" is set in 1965 New York City and follows ambitious young dancer Terry Gionoffrio,...

If you think about it, a Rosemary’s Baby prequel could’ve only gone one of two ways. You either get a better look at a character who was fleeting or too enigmatic in the Polanski original. Or, you get a backstory that adds more meat to the lore around the cursed building that was the breeding ground for horror in Rosemary’s Baby. I’m not getting into whether or not Natalie Erika James’ unofficial prequel to Rosemary’s Baby, the Julia Garner-starrer Apartment 7A, is a good enough film as an occult horror flick and a prelude to a classic. You can head over here and here for a detailed review and explainer of the film. What I’m aiming to work out in this article is how Apartment 7A connects to Rosemary’s Baby in a way that’s more than just a flimsy, technical thread. And in that regard,...

After the recent American Horror Story: Delicate adapting “a modern Rosemary’s Baby” novel and even Evil’s final season having their horse in the race, I think it’s safe to say that it’s absolutely redundant to keep going back to the Polanski classic. While a terrific film in its own right, Rosemary’s Baby isn’t necessarily a bottomless pool of different perspectives. There’s not much left to explore anymore. And Natalie Erica James’ “prequel” to the original, Apartment 7A is expectedly a reminder of that. That’s not to say that this Julia Garner-starrer isn’t an impressively well-made film; there’s not a single moment in Apartment 7A where every single component of a shot fails to come together perfectly. But like I said, there’s nothing new that Apartment 7A brings to the table. So all it goes down as is a reminder of...

The devil truly lies in the details of Apartment 7A, a prequel to the events chronicled in Ira Levin’s 1967 novel Rosemary’s Baby and Roman Polanski’s celebrated 1968 adaptation. While there are many commendable choices made throughout director and co-writer Natalie Erika James’ sophomore feature, they never coalesce into a successful narrative.

Strong performances from Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest can’t add enough weight to a pointless horror that fills in gaps we didn’t need filling in

There wasn’t any urgent necessity to this April’s horror prequel The First Omen, a film that took us back to tell a tale we mostly knew already. Filling in the specifics of Damien’s backstory, before he was adopted by a couple unaware of his satanic conception, was not something even the most impassioned Omen fans were thirsting for but it came to be because of Disney’s Fox purchase and a greedy desire to stuff its streamer Hulu with content associated with known IP, the common contemporary reasoning that forces existence: could over should.

But a strike-affected release schedule, and I would imagine some enthused test screenings, pushed it into cinemas instead and while it wasn’t without its problems,...

Paramount has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports coming to the Paramount+ streaming service in October. The Paramount Plus October 2024 schedule includes the second season of the espionage thriller series Lioness, the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, and the new Halloween special SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp.

With All Hallows Eve fast approaching, viewers will feel a tingle down their spine as the Paramount+ Peak Screaming collection casts its spell on every member of the household, and soccer enthusiasts around the world are fired up for the kickoff of the UEFA Champions League.

Inspired by an actual U.S. military program, Lioness follows the life of Joe (Zoe Saldaña) while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA’s spear in the war on terror. In season two, as the CIA’s fight moves closer to home, Joe...

Films including Immaculate, The First Omen, Apartment 7A and Alien: Romulus show terrifying depictions of childbirth – in tune with post-Roe v Wade America

Nosebleeds, a metallic taste in the mouth, feet that go up a whole size the side effects of pregnancy are their own kind of body horror and a slew of films released this year hone in on just how bloody and brutal childbirth can be. Immaculate, The First Omen, Apartment 7A and Alien: Romulus all feature pregnancies that are invasive, the result of non-consensual sexual encounters. The terror the women in these films experience when they’re at their most vulnerable is heightened by how isolated they are, either in remote locations, by a language barrier, in new cities or in the vast reaches of space. Escape seems impossible – where can you run when you’re hostage to the horrors of your own body?

The past few...

“Apartment 7A”, is the new live-action supernatural feature prequel to “Rosemary’s Baby”, directed by Natalie Erika James, starring Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Kevin McNally, Amy Leeson Rosemary, Scott Hume , Jim Sturgess, Marli Siu, Rosy McEwen, Andrew Buchan and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, streaming September 27, 2024 on Paramount+:

“…’Terry Gionoffrio’, came to New York to achieve her dream of becoming a stage performer.

“However, an injury during a performance completely changed her life’s trajectory. In an attempt to welcome a new chapter in her life, she moves into an apartment owned by the ‘Castevets’.

“She then realized the elderly couple were not what they appeared to be and that they may have done something horrible to the previous tenant…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

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Natalie Erika James’ “Apartment 7A” crumbles under circumstantial pressures. Visual blemishes don’t mar the “Rosemary’s Baby” prequel — James can shoot with effusive competence (see “Relic”). This film sleepwalks as a routine horror prequel clinging to classic nostalgia, unlike how “The First Omen” nailed the formula mere months ago. “Apartment 7A” achieves basic prequel accomplishments without finding its independent voice, playing with Roman Polanski’s characters and plotlines like a dull recreation. There’s nothing here we couldn’t already presume from watching “Rosemary’s Baby,” as James finds herself handcuffed to an original in a needless attempt to revive an existing intellectual property.

As seen in its Friday premiere at Fantastic Fest, Julia Garner stars as Terry Gionoffrio, who you’ll remember as a dead body in Polanski’s devilish maternity tale. We meet Terry as a bright-eyed Nebraskan girl with song-and-dance aspirations before a career-threatening injury. She eventually meets...

It’s been a year of horror prequels, with The First Omen and A Quiet Place: Day One renewing faith in the prequel’s ability to find unexpected, poignant story threads still left to explore, especially with talented voices driving them. That Apartment 7A, the prequel to Rosemary’s Baby, stacks the talent in front of and the behind the camera instills hope for the prequel’s continued hot streak. Unfortunately, a bland script and limiting story choices bind this prequel so thoroughly that it winds up a tedious retread of Rosemary’s Baby.

Apartment 7A opts to explore the story of Terry Gionoffrio (Julia Garner), the friendly dancer who befalls a grim fate shortly before Rosemary Woodhouse moves into the Bramford. It introduces Terry just as she’s about to join the stage for a dance number, which is abruptly cut short by a brutal snapping of Terry’s ankle, effectively crippling her career.

The year was 1968 when Roman Polanski terrified audiences with his adaptation of the bestselling novel Rosemary’s Baby. The film tells the story of a young woman who suspects her neighbors may be part of a Satanic cult.

Mia Farrow gives an all-time performance as Rosemary, who finds herself increasingly isolated and unhinged as those closest to her seem determined to make her doubt her own reality. Critics called it a stroke of genius, cementing Polanski as a master of psychological horror. Over 50 years later, it remains intensely unsettling.

Now comes Apartment 7A, which reintroduces us to a minor yet memorable figure from Rosemary’s Baby – Terry. In Polanski’s film, she’s one of the first friendly faces Rosemary meets in her new apartment building. But their brief encounter hints at darker designs lurking within those walls. This prequel delves into the events leading up to Terry’s fateful run-in with Rosemary,...

The Castevets come creepin’ in the new Rosemary’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A. Directed by Natalie Erika James (Relic) from a screenplay she co-wrote with her writing partner Christian White, and Skylar James, Apartment 7A is an imaginative re-visit to the coven that’s taken up residence in New York’s Dakota building. The Satanic slow-burn suffers from the same pitfalls of every other franchise retread but where the story separates from its predecessor is where it finds space to get creative and carve out a creepy little corner for itself.

What sets Apartment 7A apart from the Candymansand the Halloweens of the 2020s is that the story actually takes place during the events of Rosemary’s Baby. Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse are technically in this movie but their story only exists on the edges, peaking in from time to time to as background cameos. Although the end of Terry...

Prequels to horror movies are a common practice. Based on audience reactions, a filmmaker’s interest, or the production house’s lust for the big bucks, some character or element from the original film is picked up and fleshed out via a story set in the narrative’s past. And the results are always very hit or miss. Final Destination 5 mostly played out like a standalone film and only revealed that it was a prequel at the end, thereby surprising everyone. Paranormal Activity 3, despite its insane box-office run, felt like an unnecessary addition to the franchise. Prey was so good that it almost surpassed the quality of Predator. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist was a huge mess. The First Omen impressed critics and audiences but seemed pretty unoriginal to me. Orphan: First Kill was straight-up bad. Prometheus was lambasted for being an unnecessary addition to the...

The Terrifier franchise has gone from a small but devoted cult following to being one of the most recognizable IPs in the horror genre. The third film in the franchise, Terrifier 3, attempts to take the series to bigger heights in storytelling as well as gore. While there are sporadically satisfying moments, the experience is shockingly boring.

Terrifier 3 Review

The third entry in the Terrifier franchise follows Art the Clown as he returns from his apparent death to maim, torture, and murder the residents of Miles County on Christmas Eve. With each entry, the Terrifier franchise has become increasingly focused on its story; unfortunately, this is the weakest aspect of Terrifier 3.

This threequel picks back up with the protagonist of the second movie, Sienna, years after her traumatic experiences. Although the character and her arc are very generic, the role is elevated by Lauren Lavera, who gives an unexpectedly and genuinely good performance.

Earlier this year, "The First Omen" arrived in theaters, offering us a prequel to the 1976 Satanic horror pic "The Omen." In theory, this sounded like a bad idea: a lazy way to cash-in on brand awareness without offering anything new to the horror genre. But surprise, surprise! "The First Omen" turned out to be surprisingly good, especially for a studio mandated horror prequel. It may not have set the box office on fire, but in the sturdy hands of filmmaker Arkasha Stevenson, "The First Omen" was smart, captivating, and most of all, scary. Now, here comes "Apartment 7A," which is following a similar formula: It's another prequel to a devil-themed horror classic, in this case Roman Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby." My knee-jerk reaction was to be skeptical to this entire endeavour, but I was also skeptical about "The First Omen," and that turned out to be a wonderful surprise. Could it happen again?...

Natalie Erika James’ “Apartment 7A” is at once a prequel to “Rosemary’s Baby” — the book by Ira Levin and the film by Roman Polanski — and the latest entry in Hollywood’s new wave of pregnancy horror, born in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s 2022 repealing. Other examples from this year include “Immaculate” and “The First Omen” (the latter also being a prequel), but James’ mostly-solid film more succinctly captures the anxieties of the current moment.

The movie is largely entertaining, despite being pulled constantly in two directions: as a predecessor to an iconic work and as a distinct beast, with its own gripes against patriarchal norms. Set in the mid-1960s, it follows struggling stage actor Terry Gionoffrio (Julia Garner), a minor role previously played by Angela Dorian in Polanski’s film, and it details how she came to live in Bramford, the wealthy New York apartment building where “Rosemary’s Baby” is set.

As the 1960s drew to a close, director Roman Polanski‘s theatrical adaptation of Ira Levin’s novel “Rosemary’s Baby” would find immediate success from both the box office and critics alike, eventually finding its way onto many a list of genre-defining horror and inclusion within the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. This now-classic, revolving around the spouse of an NYC-based actor who believes she may very well be carrying the unborn child of Satan after a string of horrific events and the meddling of her bizarre neighbors, served as a launchpad for the career of Mia Farrow as she deftly commanded the title role and would go on to spawn its own offspring in the form of a 1976 sequel and 2014 remake, both made for television.

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By the time Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby concludes, we’re hardly left hankering for backstory. It’s the rare horror film that wholly explains itself without diluting the tension that it carefully builds. What, if anything, can a prequel bring to the table? If Natalie Erika James’s Apartment 7A is any indication, apparently not much, because aside from a few inventive dream sequences, the film’s potential never crystallizes outside of one 10-minute stretch that, unfortunately, is immediately followed by the credits.

The film follows Terry Gionoffrio (Julia Garner), a bit character in the original who appears in just two scenes—one of them as a corpse splattered on the pavement in front of the Bramford apartment building (a.k.a. the Dakota in real life). While Apartment 7A works hard to recreate the setting of Rosemary’s Baby, it isn’t beholden to the exact details of Polanski’s film.

I was admittedly trepidatious going into Apartment 7A. Franchising horror is already a difficult thing to do well given that so much of what makes the genre work is fear of the unknown; but a horror prequel? When prequels so often fall into the trap of relying too much on preexisting knowledge? How could that possibly work?

Thankfully, my doubts proved to be pointless; as Apartment 7A turned out to be a genuinely great horror film that builds off the themes of gaslighting, trauma, and body horror from the original Rosemary’s Baby while creating an original narrative and characters that can stand toe-to-toe with its best contemporaries.

What is Apartment 7A about? Julia Garner as Terry Gionoffrio in Apartment 7A

Our story centers on Terry Gionoffrio, played by Julia Garner; an aspiring Broadway performer whose dreams are upended by a sudden and dramatic onstage injury. Struggling to find work and a place to live,...

Soon after Rosemary (Mia Farrow), the protagonist of 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby, moves into the stately Renaissance revival building known as the Bramford with her husband, she meets Terry Gionoffri. Their encounter is brief but impactful.

Terry, portrayed with infectious ebullience by Victoria Vetri, eases Rosemary’s nerves about her recent move, reassuring her that the New York apartment’s other occupants are kind. In turn, Rosemary offers Terry a hopeful companionship. The two promise to make their laundry trips together as neither can stand the spooky basement. Before they part ways, Terry tells Rosemary about the Castevets, an older couple who helped her during a rough season. “I’d be dead now if it wasn’t for them,” Terry says, “that’s an absolute fact.”

Paramount+’s Apartment 7A, directed by Natalie Erika James (Relic), uses Terry to introduce a new generation of viewers to that terrifying universe of...

How well do you know your “Rosemary’s Baby“? In Roman Polanski’s 1968 film and in Ira Levin’s novel published the year before, new Bramford tenant Rosemary Woodhouse meets a young woman in the basement laundry room, Terry Gionoffrio, who says the Castavets rescued her from drug addiction and homelessness. Smash cut to the next day, and her mangled corpse is found in a pool of her own blood outside the Bramford apartment complex, having jumped to her death.

“Apartment 7A,” the atmosphere-drenched, classed-up new film directed by talented “Relic” filmmaker Natalie Erika James, is a direct prequel to “Rosemary’s Baby” that focuses entirely on Terry’s story and the events that led to her suicide. It doesn’t blow open or reinvent the “Rosemary’s Baby” mythology, but it’s a decent primer to attract younger audiences back to the 1968 classic film. Terry is played by the ever superb “Ozark” triple Emmy winner Julia Garner,...

Apartment 7A delivers the chilling story that happened before the events of Rosemary’s Baby. Premiering September 27 exclusively on Paramount+, the horror flick stars Ozark‘s Julia Garner as Terry, a woman hoping to make it big as a dancer in 1965 New York City. She finds herself in danger on the street one night when an older couple, Minnie (Dianne Wiest) and Roman (Kevin McNally), finds her and takes her in. Terry was unconscious when they found her, so she meets her saviors in earnest in the TV Insider exclusive clip above. It begins with Terry in an unfamiliar room hearing voices down the hall on a bright and sunny morning, but there’s an ominous darkness to the apartment’s interior despite the morning light flooding in. Terry overhears Minnie and Roman talking about her as she walks into their dining room where they’re eating breakfast. Their apartment is...

Fantastic Fest 2024 kicks off in weather so hot it could make a killer clown melt.

That won’t scare away the right movie lovers from this buzzy genre film event — held every year at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas. It also won’t keep the most game among them from embracing the creepy circus theme tied to the event’s extra freaky 19th edition. However, the residual face paint and sweat could prove its own messy point at opening night’s Mac Sabbath concert.

An eight-day film festival exploring horror, sci-fi, fantasy, cult films, and more, this year’s Fantastic Fest runs from Thursday, September 19 to Thursday, September 26. Founded in 2005 by Tim League, the offbeat festival includes dozens of feature films, several shorts programs, two episodic premieres for TV, a notorious “debate” night (featuring a… boxing element?!), various live performances, and more. Fantastic Games also makes its inaugural...

Paramount+’s Peak Screaming collection returns to the service today with a monster-sized lineup of thrills for audiences to enjoy this Halloween season. The popular Peak Screaming collection expands each year and features more genre-defining hits and classics than ever before, with over 450 new originals, fan-favorite horror movies, and iconic Halloween episodes from beloved series.

The seasonal collection will include the debut of the Paramount+ original film Apartment 7A (September 27), a haunting prequel to the cult classic Rosemary’s Baby, and SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp (October 10), a new hour-long special where, while at Kamp Koral for a reunion, SpongeBob and the gang are stalked by a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows as campers start disappearing one by one.

The curated Peak Screaming collection brings the household together by providing a scare for everyone with terrifying thrillers, spine-chilling films, and frights for the fainthearted, with 25 expertly curated carousels. New and returning...

Just in time for the Halloween season, the Peak Screaming Collection from Paramount+ has returned to the service today with a monster-sized lineup. The collection expands each year and this year features more genre-defining hits and classics than ever before, with over 450 new originals, fan-favorite horror movies and iconic Halloween episodes from beloved series.

The seasonal collection will include the debut of the Paramount+ original film Apartment 7A (September 27), a haunting prequel to the cult classic Rosemary’s Baby; and Spongebob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp (October 10), a new hour-long special where, while at Kamp Koral for a reunion, SpongeBob and the gang are stalked by a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows as campers start disappearing one by one.

The curated collection brings the household together by providing a scare for everyone with terrifying thrillers, spine-chilling films and frights for the fainthearted, with 25 expertly curated carousels. New and returning subgenres include the...

Fantastic Fest descends on Austin, Texas September 19 for another year of blood-soaked, eye-popping, mind-scrambling cinema! Big highlights this year for horror fans include Alexandre Aja’s Never Let Go (starting Halle Berry) the newest installment of the V/H/S franchise, and Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3. Not to mention a shitload of parties, cult classic restorations (including the world’s first monster musical from 1970), and a whole host of Secret Screenings.

Year-over-year Fantastic Fest is a playground for genre film lovers and horror fans. This year’s lineup is stuffed with insanity and must-see movies, and below we’ve compiled the 10 films every Horror won’t want to miss at Fantastic Fest 2024. More information, more movies, and more reasons to grab a ticket ‘n’ visit Austin, Texas can be found Here.

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The Tribeca Festival is officially going international.

IndieWire can confirm that the inaugural Tribeca Festival Lisboa will take place from October 17 to 19 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Tribeca Festival Lisboa lineup has been unveiled, featuring the Portuguese premieres of “Anora,” “Ezra,” “Jazzy,” and “Group Therapy.”

Tribeca Festival Lisboa will showcase eight U.S. films, including top winners from Tribeca 2024 such as Nicholas Colia’s “Griffin in Summer,” Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning feature “Anora,” Sundance breakout “In the Summers,” and the heart-wrenching SXSW drama “Bob Trevino Likes It.”

The international premiere of “A Bronx Tale, The Original One Man Show” followed by a talkback with writer, director, and star Chazz Palminteri will also take place.

A special screening of the highly-anticipated Portuguese series “Azul,” César Mourão’s feature narrative “Podia Ter Esperado Por Agosto,” the world premiere of “Unicorn,” and screenings of short films such as “Era Uma Vez No Apocalipse,...

“Apartment 7A”, is the new live-action supernatural feature prequel to “Rosemary’s Baby”, directed by Natalie Erika James, starring Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Kevin McNally, Amy Leeson Rosemary, Scott Hume , Jim Sturgess, Marli Siu, Rosy McEwen, Andrew Buchan and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, streaming September 27, 2024 on Paramount+:

“…’Terry Gionoffrio’, came to New York to achieve her dream of becoming a stage performer.

“However, an injury during a performance completely changed her life’s trajectory. In an attempt to welcome a new chapter in her life, she moves into an apartment owned by the ‘Castevets’.

“She then realized the elderly couple were not what they appeared to be and that they may have done something horrible to the previous tenant…”

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Things are getting hairy for Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner in the first teaser trailer for Wolf Man.

Universal Pictures is set to release director Leigh Whannell’s horror feature in theaters Jan. 17, 2025. The film is a reimagining of the classic monster franchise that launched with 1941’s The Wolf Man. The new version centers on a man whose family is hunted by a deadly predator.

“It sounded like an animal,” Abbott says in the trailer. “But I swear to God, it was standing on two feet.”

Later, a young girl asks, “What’s wrong with Daddy?”

Sam Jaeger and Matilda Firth round out the cast. Blumhouse and Motel Movies are behind the film that previously had Ryan Gosling attached as the lead before Abbott took over in the title role.

Jason Blum produces the movie that counts Whannell, Gosling, Ken Kao, Beatriz Sequeira and Melanie Turner as executive producers.

Abbott...