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Malevolent launches a month of Netflix & Chills in decently scary yet unspectacular fashion.

Director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson’s Malevolent is the first offering in what Netflix is referring to as its month of “Netflix & Chills.” October is one of the few months on the calendar that routinely gets its own theme, so strong is the siren call of Halloween and all the horror and spookiness it represents. Don’t even come at me with December the “holiday season.” Snow and general goodwill do not a holiday month make.

The desire to be scared is so strong that entertainment corporations are increasingly developing their whole October content calendar around it. Thank goodness they are, because while fear is something that the dopamine receptors in our brain craver, it is so, so, so, so hard for anything to satisfactorily fill that need.

Horror is hard. Creating a truly great horror movie is nigh impossible.

Netflix has premiered the trailer for its upcoming horror based on the Eva Konstantopoulos novel Hush, Malevolent.

The story centres on a brother and sister duo who con those who are experiencing grief into thinking they can speak with the dead. That is until they meet one woman at an old orphanage that was home to a string of brutal murders.

Directed by Icelandic filmmaker, Olaf de Fleur, the Netflix film stars Florence Pugh, Ben Lloyd-Hughes and Celia Imrie.

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The film premieres on Netflix on October 5.

Malevolent Official Synopsis

Brother and sister team Angela (Florence Pugh) and Jackson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) are nothing more than scam artists. Preying on the grief-stricken and the vulnerable, they convince the bereaved that Angela has the ability to contact the dead. It’s a simple con until Mrs. Green (Celia Imrie) summons...

Netflix has released the first trailer for MaleVolent. This looks like one of the many movies that the streaming service has been developing that has sort of caught us off guard. Not only does this look like it could be a potentially fun way to kick off a month celebrated by horror lovers, but the movie arrives on Netflix in just a few days on October 5. Will this be a welcome early Halloween surprise for genre fans? Or is it merely a run of the mill horror flick that is getting dumped to a streaming service? Hard to say just yet, but the trailer packs quite the bloody punch.

Even taking some of the initially brutal imagery out of the equation, like a man getting his head absolutely caved in with a shovel, the whole wonky-sounding self-help tape that is playing in the background is unsettling all on its own.

Netflix is really doubling (tripling? quadrupling?) their spooky content in preparation for Halloween, including a new horror film called Malevolent. Written by Ben Katai and Eva Konstantopoulos and directed by Olaf de Fleur, Malevolent stars Florence Pugh and Ben Lloyd-Hughes as a pair of siblings who con the grieving by making them believe they can contact the dead. But when they are invited to an old orphanage where brutal murders have taken place, they are confronted by something they didn't fake ... The trailer explains the con, and how the siblings are immediately challenged when taking on the this …...

Netflix has released the trailer for “Malevolent,” one of many horror offerings debuting on the streaming service during this most spooky of months. It has the benefit of starring Florence Pugh, who endeared herself to many with her role in “Lady Macbeth” and also stars in Netflix’s upcoming “Outlaw King,” as well as being directed by a dude with the implausibly cool name of Olaf de Fleur. Watch the trailer below…unless you’re scared.

Abandon all hope ye who read the synopsis: “Brother and sister team Angela (Florence Pugh) and Jackson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) are nothing more than scam artists. Preying on the grief stricken and the vulnerable, they convince the bereaved that Angela has the ability to contact the dead. It’s a simple con, until Mrs. Green (Celia Imrie) summons the pair to her home — the orphanage that was once stage to a string of murders of...

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Re/Collection

Logline: In the near future, where technology has made memory a commodity, a desperate husband seeks out a risky procedure to save the love of his life.

Elevator Pitch:

Memories shape our identities. We are what we remember.

But what happens when our experiences and our memories become our currency?

“Re/Collection” is a story that imagines a world where technology has turned human memory into a commodity.

It follows the fallout of this tech on one ordinary couple, and asks the question: What would you sacrifice to save the one you love?

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The script was awarded the One...

The sales agent has commenced international sales on the Sigma Films and Thruline Entertainment horror supported by Creative Scotland.

Former Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Sophie Cookson, riding high on the success of global hit Kingsman: The Secret Service, plays a young woman who runs a ghostbusting racket with her sibling.

When the pair investigate a haunted foster home where a sadistic killer used to operate, they uncover a far more terrifying supernatural force.

Iceland’s Olaf de Fleur will direct Hush and Sigma’s Brian Coffey and Thruline’s Danny Sherman produce. Coffey produced The Legend Of Barney Thomson and Citadel, while Sherman is working on the upcoming The Wild One Hundreds and Bathing Flo.

Principal photography is set to kick off in October in Scotland.

Ben Ketai, whose credits include The Forest and The Strangers 2, adapted the screenplay from a novella by Em Blomqvist. Eva Konstantopoulos made script revisions.

de Fleur won...