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Tubi has recently released a press release detailing all the films, series, and reality shows coming to the streamer in May. Among the 100+ releases arriving on Tubi, some of our favorite movies have also made it to the list. Given that the streamer is free for users, fans now get to watch these films without the hassle of a paywall.

The streamer has also announced four original projects in May. If you are wondering how the streamer makes money on these projects, it makes revenue from the ads run on the platform. With more crowd-pulling projects, more people are likely to log in to the streamer. It means that they will make more revenue for future projects from ads.

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The Substance feels uniquely modern in its critique of beauty standards and aging in Hollywood. However, it seemsCoralie Fargeat had the foundational idea in her head almost a decade before its release, as her short film Reality+ feels like the blueprint for the Oscar-nominated horror movie. If The Substance is a biological analysis of image, Reality+ is a technological examination, focusing on the way we use filters to alter our image. The procedure feels much more widespread, and whilst it focuses on the protagonist Vincent (Vincent Colombe), it doesn’t feel like a personal story. Instead, it reads as an allegory for the image-obsessed society we live in, and the untrustworthy facade of social media - where you can never know someone’s true self.

Horror films have enjoyed a delightful renaissance in the past decade, and 2024 didn’t break the trend. Multiple acclaimed scream-worthy films entered the public zeitgeist, but few were as acclaimed as Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance. Both hailed and decried as a “nauseating” exercise in expert body horror, Fargeat’s frightful masterpiece quickly earned a reputation for its clever messaging. However, The Substance isn’t Fargeat’s first foray into intellectual frights. After all, French cinema has always been a fan of subversive body horror. Thus, it should come as no surprise that Fargeat has another clever use of horror under her belt.

More precisely, she directed Revenge. Like The Substance, her 2017 flick preys upon the audience’s deepest fears. It’s disturbing on the most visceral levels and repulsive by every conceivable social norm. So, it’s the perfect horror film. It’s categorically considered an action-thriller, but don...

French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat's 2024 film The Substance has been one of the most talked-about horror movies of the year, earning raves for its audacious style, unflinching body horror, and go-for-broke lead performances from Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. But while the film marked Fargeat's entry into English-language cinema, working with Hollywood stars and bigger budgets, her French-language debut feature contains many of the elements that made The Substance stand out.

That film is 2017's Revenge, a bloody and brilliantly feminist subversion of the infamous rape revenge horror subgenre. Fargeat both indulges in the violence inherent in the genre and reclaims it through her own sense of over-the-top style. Where The Substance mines horror from the unrealistic beauty standards placed on women, Revenge gives us a female hero fighting back against the structures of wealth and power that try to silence her. People who were wowed by The Substance owe...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for The Substance!

The Substance is one of the best horror movies of 2024, and here are 10 other films to watch if you like Coralie Fargeat's terrifying thriller. The Substance's body horror is some of the best that has been seen on the big screen in years, with it calling back to some of the body horror greats like David Cronenberg. The Substance's mix of gore, comedy, and social commentary makes it a wholly unique experience that is deserving of praise, with its style making it stand out among the many horror movies that have been released in recent years.

The Substance follows Demi Moore's Elisabeth Sparkle, an aging actress and model who wants nothing more than to be as beautiful as she believes she once was. Elisabeth signs up to test out a new drug called The Substance that promises to create a new her,...

To mark the release of Revenge on 21st November, we’ve been given a Blu-ray copy to give away to 1 winner.

Entitled CEO Richard’s (Kevin Janssens – Undercover ) romantic getaway with his young mistress Jen (Lutz) is interrupted when his sleazy associates Stan (Vincent Colombe – Point Blank) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède – Love at Second Sight) arrive early for the businessmen’s annual hunting trip. Their leering advances turn ugly, culminating in a brutal attack where Jen is left for dead in the desert. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Jen rises, and now she’s out for revenge. What follows is ‘a bloody middle finger…a demand for reckoning…a kick in the balls with a feminine combat boot’ (Rolling Stone).

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned…and now it’s time to get Revenge.

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Exclusive: Here’s the striking first official image of Kate Winslet as Lee Miller in feature Lee.

The image, shot during filming on location in Croatia, shows Oscar winner Winslet as the pioneering American photographer who covered WWII in Europe for British Vogue.

Filming is ongoing on the directorial debut of respected cinematographer Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind).

The film is not being called a biopic by Winslet and the producers, but it does explore the most significant decade of Lee Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse and defied expectations by travelling to Europe to report from the frontline. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What Lee captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific.

To mark the release of Revenge on 11th May, we’ve been given 1 boxset to give away on Blu-ray.

Entitled CEO Richard’s (Kevin Janssens –Undercover ) romantic getaway with his young mistress Jen (Matilda Lutz) is interrupted when his sleazy associates Stan (Vincent Colombe – Point Blank) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède – Love at Second Sight) arrive early for the businessmen’s annual hunting trip. Their leering advances turn ugly, culminating in a brutal attack where Jen is left for dead in the desert. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Jen rises, and now she’s out for revenge. What follows is ‘a bloody middle finger…a demand for reckoning…a kick in the balls with a feminine combat boot’ (Rolling Stone).

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned…and now it’s time to get Revenge.

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Revenge is released on Digital HD on 7th September from Vertigo Releasing. Matilda Lutz (Rings) Kevin Janssens (TV series Salamander) Vincent Colombe (Point Blank) Robin Coudert Coralie Fargeat Synopsis: Wealthy and handsome Richard takes his beautiful young mistress Jen to an isolated luxury condo in the desert, a …

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MaryAnn’s quick take… This rape-revenge action horror is solid as pure grindhouse exploitation. But the rendering of its rage-fueled female protagonist is too salacious for this to ever be considered feminist. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for movies about women

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film

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A young woman arrives with her wealthy older — married — boyfriend at his getaway house in the desert. She’s not a child, but she’s pretty Lolita-esque, right down to her coquettish deployment of a lollipop. Then Richard’s (Kevin Janssens) deeply creepy pals, Stan (Vincent Colombe) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède), arrive days early for their planned hunting trip, and Jen (Matilda Lutz) proceeds to flirt outrageously with them. This is perhaps to demonstrate to the viewer that Jen is just...

Let us now praise exploitation movies – those grotty, violent, sordid movies as sticky as the floors of a Forty Deuce theater and as guilty-pleasurably queasy as a drive-in hot-dog binge. You could definitely see Coralie Fargeat's nasty little nugget of a debut slotting nicely into the middle section of a vintage triple feature, sandwiched by the Russ Meyer-sterpiece Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45; the latter is practically a spirit animal to this French take on the subgenre known as the "rape revenge" movie. Those...

Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède | Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat

French writer-director Coralie Fargeat makes a spectacular debut with Revenge, a stylish and super-violent thriller that brings a female perspective to the rape revenge genre and delivers a powerful kick to the unmentionables in the process.

The film’s take-no-prisoners attitude is perfectly summed up by its ingenious trailer, which intersperses clips from the film with actual online comments from disgruntled men about the film, with the tag-line “Coming for the haters”.

The plot is ridiculously simple. Married businessman Richard (Kevin Janssens) and his younger mistress Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) arrive at a luxury retreat in a remote desert location (it was filmed in Morocco) for a spot of debauchery before Richard’s planned hunting trip. However, their fun and frolics are cut short when Richard’s two sleazy buddies, Stan (Vincent...

The rape-revenge thriller genre is a loaded one with a tumultuous history, mostly dominated by men: male writers, male directors and very often male protagonists avenging a female character’s assault. And yet many women genre-film fans retain a kind of soft spot for the rape-revenge tale, specifically when the female protagonist can tear out on a vengeful journey of her own.

In real life, men are rarely punished for their transgressions; a rape-revenge film is the one place where the scales of justice tip startlingly — and bloodily — toward the victim’s favor. Still, these films that women are cathartically enjoying are seen through a male lens, and detangling the politics of that vision is a fraught activity for female viewers.

Now, Coralie Fargeat’s addition to the genre, aptly and simply titled “Revenge,” offers a woman’s Pov on the age-old tale and succeeds in turning a B concept soaked in blood into a pure adrenaline rush of terror, grounded firmly in the real and horrifying dynamics that breed rape culture.

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Matilda Lutz (“Rings”) plays Jen, a scantily clad, sportive girl who accompanies her older, married lover Richard (Kevin Janssens) to a remote, desert getaway. Jen is in love. Every inch of her tanned, tight body she gives over to him, letting him move her around like a puppet, completely trusting in their bond that this is a safe space to be sexual. When Richard’s two hunting friends show up a day earlier than expected, their rifle-wielding figures break into her blissful bubblegum world and immediately cast an ominous shadow over the house.

But because Jen is sweet and accommodating — and also because she possesses that no-good gene that tells her she needs to be liked — she entertains the three men with some sexy dancing later that night, as they get sloshed by the pool. They tell her how beautiful she is, and she coyly smiles, saying she’d like to go to Los Angeles someday. She’s like so many other young women who’ve felt their beauty and charm has gifted them a protected status, that if they work so very hard to be liked, they will never get hurt.

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As the quartet are hanging out, Jen pulls up Stan (Vincent Colombe) to do a lighthearted grind on him, the kind of movement so often seen in clubs but somehow startlingly intimate in this scene because of how Stan reacts: licking lips in expectancy. This is the signal that Jen’s bubblegum fantasies will quickly pop.

I’m not going to get too far into the rape, but it happens, and Fargeat’s handling is commendable, as she focuses most on the complicity of the bystander. And still, it’s not the rape that breaks Jen. After the assault, she cocoons into herself, waiting for Richard to return and save her, while her attacker simply watches TV in the other room; Fargeat gets the odd banality to rape, how quickly it can begin and end, with the wicked assumption that the victim should just get over it, because it’s really only “20 minutes of action” — in this case, more like 20 seconds of screen time.

It’s when Richard returns and coldly tries to buy her silence that Jen finally really loses it. In that moment where Jen stares into Richard’s eyes and knows for sure that he is not her white knight, Lutz’s eyes jitter back and forth, her body once loose and lithe now seeming alert and sinewy. Jen’s pushed over a cliff and left for dead, setting her on the road to revenge.

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The remainder of this film after that fall and Jen’s landing on a sharp tree branch that lodges itself in her abdomen is one part “MacGyver,” two parts Wtf! Jen trails gallons of blood around the desert, Fargeat being unconcerned with medical realism and opting instead to paint the scenes crimson; it’s both more visceral and more grotesquely beautiful that way.

What’s most peculiar and original about this story, however, is that Jen’s killing spree isn’t merely about vengeance. In so many other films from this sub-genre, the victim must take time from their trauma to heal and find strength, plotting and planning, but Jen isn’t afforded that time; it’s kill or be killed in the desert. It’s a fascinating choice Fargeat made to call the film “Revenge” instead of “Survive,” but the former injects agency into the female protagonist, and Jen certainly has agency.

In other hands, this film could go kitsch, could all be a big joke, but Fargeat directs Lutz like no other Rambo-style action hero before her. Yes, Jen (on peyote) transforms into a steel-willed murderer and self-surgeon, but for all that bravada, her arms still shake as she lifts the sight of her rifle to her eye. She has no qualms about pulling the trigger, but Jen’s mannerisms clue us in that she is still, deep down, internally frightened, even as her courage surges forth.

It’s a multi-layered performance we rarely get in an action film: can you imagine Sylvester Stallone or Bruce Willis betraying their characters’ own assured masculinity with a trace of vulnerability? No. Their characters certainly become self-deprecating with jokes as a coping mechanism, but Jen is something altogether different. She is both all too real and not real at all, and this confusing of the senses allows us to believe every outrageous story element, building to one impossibly tense finale steeped in the blood of Jen’s assailants. And, oh, how sweet it is.



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Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature Revenge is a fast-paced, gory and decidedly unapologetic body horror film which manages to incorporate a strong feminist message into an otherwise unabashedly violent genre movie. Written, as well as directed, by Fargeat the film packs more punches than your average Hollywood action flick, and is surprisingly unafraid to show its subversive horror credentials all the while making a strong case for the need for more female-led genre films, particularly in the current climate.

Jen (Matilda Lutz) is happily enjoying an illicit getaway with her married boyfriend Richard (Kevin Janssens) when the lovers are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Richard’s sleazy hunting buddies Stan (Vincent Colombe) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède). After a night of heavy drinking and high-jinx, tensions rise between Jen and one of the unexpected guests, all of which culminates in a shocking act of violence against the young woman, leaving her for dead.

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"Why are women always so bad at being cool?" Neon has revealed a hilarious new trailer for the action thriller Revenge, from newcomer Coralie Fargeat making her feature directorial debut. This gritty, violent film is about a woman who takes revenge on the men who try to attack her. The trailer actually quotes real men online who left dumb comments about women, and it's kind of crazy, but kind of awesome. This is so bold but I love it. Matilda Lutz stars as Jen, with a cast including Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. Described as a "razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller", that "gloriously blurs the lines of vengeance and survival while simultaneously delivering a ferocious dissection of gender and genre." I actually really want to see this anyway, just because it looks like a good action film. Here's the newest official trailer (+ a Japanese poster) for Coralie Fargeat's Revenge,...

The front half of Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature Revenge provides audiences the sort of sensory overload that hits like a sledgehammer. You might not think this will be the case considering things start off with a serenely static shot of desert expanse while a helicopter approaches from the center of the frame, but the hard rock riffs kick in soon after with music video style glamour shots of Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) and Richard (Kevin Janssens) starring into the distance. They’re here for a wild weekend of sex and solitude — a welcome combination considering his wife and kids are back at home. Fargeat shoots her introduction with a male gaze towards female objectification, Richard’s fantasies being realized thanks to a very game Jen always ready to please.

The close-ups show her waist at the refrigerator, her body a thing to stare at while she saunters carefree through the secluded mansion.

A douchebag alpha dad played by the shredded and square-jawed Belgian actor Kevin Janssens, Richard just wants to spend a quiet weekend in the desert with his teenage mistress, far away from his unseen wife and their pesky children. After all, there’s no point in buying a glass mansion in the middle of nowhere if you’re not going to have illicit sex all over it. And it’s not like Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) isn’t totally into it. The young aspiring actress goes full Lolita in the introductory shot where she climbs out of a helicopter in slow-motion, her eyes shaded in pink sunglasses and her lips pursed around a lollipop. Between the ogling and the Hype Williams hyper-saturation of Robrecht Heyvaert’s cinematography, we’re only one vaguely racist alien robot away from a Michael Bay movie.

Bad news for Richard: This is not a Michael Bay movie.

Revenge Shudder/ Neon Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Coralie Fargeat Screenwriter: Coralie Fargeat Cast: Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchede, Jean-Louis Tribes Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/27/18 Opens: May 11, 2018 Women in the developed world are as free as men to say whatever they want. But that doesn’t mean it’s wise […]

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Revenge Red Band and Green Band Trailers

Coralie Fargeat‘s Revenge (2017) red band and green band movie trailers stars Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. Revenge‘s plot synopsis: “Jen (fearlessly embodied by Matilda Lutz, Rings) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive [...]

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If you like a good crazy revenge thriller, you're gonna love the hell out of Revenge. I saw this movie at Sundance and it was a wickedly brutal bloodbath of survival. Today we have a new red-band trailer to share with you that gives us just a little taste of the insanity that this movie has to offer.

The story follows a young woman who is left for dead in the desert but she comes back to unleash hell on the people who violently assaulted her. Here's the synopsis:

Debut director Coralie Fargeat announces her stunning arrival, painting a crimson canvas of hypnotic beauty and bloody retribution in this razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller.Jen (fearlessly embodied by Matilda Lutz, Rings) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house...

"Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men." Neon has debuted an official red band trailer for an action thriller titled Revenge, from newcomer Coralie Fargeat making her feature directorial debut. This played to some rave reviews at Fantastic Fest and Tiff last year, and seems like a gritty film with a helluva pitch (see the one-line synopsis at the start of this post). Matilda Lutz stars as Jen, with a cast including Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. It's described as a "razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller", that "gloriously blurs the lines of vengeance and survival while simultaneously delivering a ferocious dissection of gender and genre." Sounds awesome, doesn't it? Yes, you might want to take a look. Here's the official red band trailer (+ original trailer / poster) for Coralie Fargeat's Revenge, on...

Starting today through Sunday, April 1st, What the Fest!? takes place at the IFC Center in New York City. We have a look at the full lineup of horror and sci-fi goodness in today's Horror Highlights, which also includes Corbin Nash trailer starring Malcolm MacDowell and The Unwilling release details.

What the Fest!? 2018 Lineup Announced: Press Release: "(New York, NY | March 7, 2018) IFC Center is proud to announce the full slate for the upcoming film festival What the Fest!? (www.whatthefestnyc.com), a four-day showcase of outrageous content -- horror, sci-fi, documentary, thrillers, and beyond -- from March 29th through April 1st.What the Fest!? will feature exciting premieres, including one world premiere, one Us premiere, many New York premieres and the world premiere of a new digital restoration of a film never before released in the U.S. What the Fest!? also boasts under the radar cinematic finds, film festival hits from Sundance,...

While Shudder acquired rights to the buzzed-about movie Revenge back in August, Neon and the AMC-owned streaming service are teaming up for a new agreement that will allow the former to give the movie a North American theatrical release before it streams exclusively on the latter.

Deadline reported the latest rights news for Revenge, which is currently being shown as part of the Midnight section at the Sundance Film Festival. Another entry in the Midnight section, Assassination Nation, was also picked up by Neon (along with Agbo) for theatrical distribution.

Given a 4 out of 5 score by Daily Dead Managing Editor Heather Wixson in her Fantastic Fest review, Revenge has been taking the festival circuit by storm as a must-watch cinematic experience, and we're excited that Daily Dead readers will not only be able to watch it on Shudder (likely sometime this year), but will also now get to see it on the big screen.

A trailer was just released for a crazy and brutal looking revenge thriller called Revenge. The movie is set to screen later this month at Sundance and you can bet your ass that I'm going to watch it! it seriously looks like one hell of a wild and intense ride! It pretty much follows a young woman who is left for dead in the desert, but comes back to unleash hell on the people who violently assaulted her. Here's the synopsis:

Jen joins her married lover, Richard, for a romp at his secluded desert villa before his annual hunting vacation. However, when his leering pals arrive, they¹re a far cry from Richard¹s millionaire-Adonis charms, and they feel entitled to make their own advances on Jen and ignore her rejections. After being violently assaulted and left for dead in the middle of the desert, Jen comes back to life,...

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The film opened in Chicago on Aug. 12, 2011 at Landmark Century Centre Cinema. “Point Blank” stars Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier, Claire Perot, Moussa Maaskri, Pierre Benoist, Valérie Dashwood, Virgile Bramly, Nicky Naude, Adel Bencherif, Vincent Colombe, Chems Dahmani and Grégoire Bonnet from writer and director Fred Cavayé.

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