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Iconic author Stephen King is rather prone to taking to social media to champion noteworthy efforts from other creators that he happens upon in the wild. The bestselling author has even praised several efforts based on his own work over the years. Today, we have a recommendation to share that bridges that gap. This recommendation, which is pulled from one of the author’s tweets, is a Netflix series that the beloved author compares to his own output as well as to another beloved Netflix original series. See what we mean below.

You had us at Stranger Things. With the added distinction that Marianne has a King-esque quality to it, we’re now even more stoked on this one! If King’s endorsement has enticed you to check out the series, make your way over to Netflix and give it a shot!

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The setup of Samuel Bodin's 2019 horror TV series "Marianne" is deliciously fun. A horror author named Emma Larsimon (Victoire Du Bois) has just killed off the main character of her series of witch-based horror novels, happy to retire the series. Weirdly, one of Emma's friends, Caroline, calls her up and explains that her elderly mother has come to believe that she is possessed by Marianne, the witch from Emma's books. Indeed, Caroline takes her own life (in public) after talking about how Emma's parents are going to be taken by Marianne as well. When Emma returns to her home town, her parents soon attack her assistant Camille (Lucie Boujenah) before wandering into the woods naked, bloody runes carved in their faces.

And that's just in the first episode. The rest of the eight-episode series takes place mostly in Emma's hometown as she returns to suss out her youth and solve her personal witchy mysteries.

Stephen King, the prolific horror writer behind iconic, haunting tales like It, Misery, The Shining and Carrie, has not been shy about sharing his opinions on other horror media. On his X account, among pictures of his beloved corgi, whom he lovingly calls "the thing of evil," King has graciously shared his opinions on multiple fabulous horror shows.

These shows are tension-filled, action-packed and beautifully shot. But above all, they're creepy enough to garner the adoration of the King of Horror. Although he's now sworn off X, thankfully, these titles are all still available to watch on Netflix.

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Yellowjackets centers on a high school girls' soccer team after their plane crashes in the wilderness and they're forced to claw their way to survival. The series shows just how resourceful, complicated and ruthless teenage girls can be when pushed to their limit.

While horror is a genre mostly associated with the medium of film, horror television has produced some of the best work the genre has seen. Mike Flanagan's latest horror series, The Fall of the House of Usher, draws inspiration from another horror icon, Edgar Allan Poe, and incorporates many of his works into this series based around the same-titled story.

Starting with The Haunting of Hill House, adapted from the novel by Shirley Jackson, Flanagan pays respectful homage to the source material while adroitly infusing it with his sensibilities. Fans who enjoyed The Fall of the House of Usher series have plenty of options when looking for must-watch horror to add to their queue. They embody the same classic Gothic sensibilities, married to contemporary narratives and with strong creative forces behind the scenes.

Updated on February 5, 2025, by Ajay Aravind: In addition to The Fall of the House of Usher,...

In less than a decade, Timothée Chalamet has gone from a relatively unknown actor to a much sought-after A-lister. Though he is only 29 years old, the actor has had an impressive filmography already. After appearing in some TV episodes and TV movies, his feature film career began in 2014 with the Jason Reitman movie Men, Women, & Children. He appeared in two other movies that year, including Worst Friends and the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar, wherein he played Cooper's young son.

In 2024 alone, Chalamet has had a huge year in his career. This kicked off with his leading role as Paul Atreides in the well-reviewed sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two, which released in March. He will also soon appear in the biopic A Complete Unknown, wherein he plays famed singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. A Complete Unknown releases widely on Christmas Day, but the movie has already earned Chalamet enough praise to make...

After directing the Oscar-nominated animated film “I Lost My Body,” Jérémy Clapin now finds himself making his first live-action feature.

Clapin writes and directs the drama “Meanwhile on Earth,” which stars newcomer Megan Northam as a girl who grieves her missing astronaut brother. However, all may not be as it seems.

The official synopsis reads: “Elsa (Northam), along with her family, is struggling following the disappearance of her brother Franck, an astronaut who vanished during his first mission. While stargazing one night, Elsa is shocked to receive contact from Franck, but her joy is short-lived when she learns of the dark and troubling forces behind Franck’s reappearance, forcing her to confront the lengths she will go for the brother she once feared was gone forever.”

The film is produced by Marc du Pontavice and will be distributed by Metrograph Pictures. Rising outfit Metrograph is making a splash this year...

Out with the old, in with the new! As Netflix begins cleaning house for both a new month and a new, several of its biggest titles will sadly have to say goodbye. January 2024 will be your last month to watch several modern classics, including Jordan Peele’s culture-changing horror debut “Get Out,” the Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone-starred “La La Land,” and “Poor Things” director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Greek tragedy retelling “The Killing of a Sacred Deer.”

Now’s your last chance to watch everything before they’re gone— get started with The Streamable’s Top 5 picks for everything leaving Netflix in January and see everything that will be removed from the platform throughout the month below!

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Ron Stallworth’s memoir about infiltrating the local Ku Klux Klan chapter after being...

Petites Review — Petites (2022) Film Review from the 75th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Julie Lerat-Gersant, starring Romane Bohringer, Lauréna Thellier, Pili Groyne, Victoire Du Bois, Bilel Chegrani, and Wood Victory. The denial of medical care is a human rights violation, full stop, yet conservatives and misogynists alike still love to split [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Petites: A Complex Look At Reproductive Rights and Unplanned Motherhood [Locarno 2022]...

Italy’s Satine Film has picked up Julie Lerat-Gersant’s Locarno Film Festival title “Little Ones” about teen pregnancy, Variety has learned in Locarno. In the past, the company has also released such titles as “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and Golden Bear winner “There Is No Evil.”

“We aim to discover and introduce visionary and courageous cinematographic voices from all over the world,” said Claudia Bedogni, Satine Film’s founder and managing director.

“The film struck me with its gentle but secure narration and captivating, emotional performances. It’s one of these rare gems where you feel tremendous empathy for the characters as if you were there with them, sharing the same sorrows and dilemmas,” she added. The company is hoping to encourage young audiences to watch the film. “We have done the same with Stéphane Demoustier’s ‘The Girl With a Bracelet,’ also acquired in Locarno, and it...

The actor will share centre stage with Zar Amir Ebrahimi in Guillaume Renusson’s first feature film, a Baxter Films and Les Films Velvet production set to be sold by WTFilms. Halted after a week of shooting back in March on account of the strict lockdown implemented across France, filming on Guillaume Renusson’s first full-length work Les Survivants finally resumed on Monday 11 January. Shining bright in the cast are Denis Ménochet (recently nominated for the 2020 Best Supporting Role César for By The Grace of God; also well-received in Only The Animals) and French-Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi who are joined by Victoire Du Bois, Oscar Copp and Italy’s Luca Terracciano. Written by Guillaume Renusson and Clément Peny, the story (which won the Audience Award for Best Screenplay for a First Feature Film at Angers’ European First Film Festival) revolves around Samuel who, in...

Despite strong reviews from critics and a lot of viewers singing its praises, Netflix unfortunately cancelled horror series Marianne after just one season earlier this year. And what a shame that is.

Led by Victoire du Bois in the role of Emma, it followed a successful and well-known horror writer who begins to notice that the characters she creates for her novels are now causing chaos in the real world. The chilling first season brought us a haunting story that satisfied on nearly every level, leaving the door open for another run in the process. But alas, it wasn’t meant to be.

However, recently it seems that the series has found a new audience, with tons of people just discovering it and finding that they’d been missing out on one of Netflix’s scariest shows. And below, you can see but a sample of their reactions to the terrifying journey.

Despite glowing reviews from critics and positive viewer reception, Netflix has chosen to cancel their new horror series Marianne after only one season.

The French show was led by Victoire du Bois in the role of Emma, a successful and well-known horror author who begins to notice that the evil spirit – a character she created that often haunts her nightmares – is now causing chaos in the real world. The chilling horror of Marianne‘s first season melded well with glimmers of humor and excellent character development, and those who made it through the entirety of its haunting story were left with plenty to talk about.

Though the show ended with enough ambiguity to warrant another season. writer and director Samuel Bodin didn’t mince words when sharing the unfortunate cancellation news. In an Instagram post, he had this to say to fans:

There won’t be a second season for Marianne.

It takes a little while to meet the main character of French animator Jérémy Clapin’s extraordinary, dreamlike I Lost My Body; first, we get to know our protagonist’s previous owner. That would be Naoufel (voiced by Hakim Faris — or Dev Patel if you opt for the dubbed alternative, though trust us when we say that you’ll want the original-recipe version), a young Franco-Arabic man in Paris. Soon, via flashbacks, we’ll watch him go from a happy, sound-obsessed child to a sullen twentysomething scarred by tragedy; he...

Sneak Peek the award winning animated feature "I Lost My Body", directed by Jérémy Clapin, streaming on Netflix November 15, 2019:

"...'Naoufel', a young man in love with 'Gabrielle', is unaware that in another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab (?!) determined to find its body again..."

Voice cast includes Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois and Patrick d'Assumçao.

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In May, a French animated film about a hand debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Jérémy Clapin and co-written by Amélie screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, it became the first animated feature to win the Nespresso Grand Prize in International Critics Week. Since then, it was recognised at Annecy Animated Film Festival and more recently, this year’s London Film Festival.

I Lost My Body (original title: J’ai Perdu Mon Corps) follows a hand that ‘wakes up’ completely detached from its owner Naofel (Hakim Faris). As it ventures across the city to find its owner, it reminisces key moments of Naofel’s life and his tentative romance with librarian Gabrielle (Victoire Du Bois).

If you think that I Lost My Body is more like Thing in The Addams Family, think again. Rather than take a whimsical approach to complement its atypical protagonist, Laurant creates a narrative that...

Dev Patel, Alia Shawkat and George Wendt have recorded the English-language dub of I Lost My Body, the French animated film that won the top prize at Cannes Critics’ Week this year.

Netflix swooped on the project’s global rights, excluding China, Benelux, Turkey, and France, following its Cannes bow. The film will have an awards-qualifying theatrical run in cinemas beginning November 15 in the U.S. and November 22 in the UK, before arriving on the platform November 29. It will also screen at the BFI London Film Festival on October 4.

Jérémy Clapin directed I Lost My Body, which follows a severed hand that escapes its unhappy fate in a Parisian laboratory and sets out to reconnect with its body. Patel is voicing pizza boy Naoufel, the owner of the hand, and Shawkat is voicing his love interest Gabrielle.

Andrew Bujalski oversaw the English dub under supervision from Clapin. The roles were...

Netflix scooped up global rights to Cannes Critics’ Week Award winner “I Lost My Body,” from Xilam Animation, after its premiere at the festival. Now, the streaming giant has tapped Dev Patel, Alia Shawkat, and George Wendt to lead the English-language cast of French director Jérémy Clapin’s animated feature debut, in which young love and childhood memories intertwine as a severed hand crosses Paris in search of its owner.

Additionally, filmmaker Andrew Bujalski has been named the Creative Lead of the English dub under the supervision of director Clapin. Patel, Shawkat, and Wendt will take on the voice roles from the original French voiceover cast led by Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, and Patrick d’Assumçao.

The film’s official synopsis reads: “In a Parisian laboratory, a severed hand escapes its unhappy fate and sets out to reconnect with its body in this Cannes Critics’ Week selection. During a hair-raising escapade across the city,...

Why does Netflix insist on never letting me sleep through the night? First it fueled my nightmares with freaky TV series like The Haunting of Hill House and Slasher, and now the streaming giant has decided to drop a spooky new horror show just in time for Friday the 13th: Marianne. So, is it worth a watch? And what's it about?

First things first: it's a French series split into eight equally terrifying episodes and stars Victoire Du Bois in the lead. She plays Emma, a famous horror novelist who uses a nightmarish witch, Marianne, who haunted her dreams as a child for inspiration in her latest book. Unfortunately, during a trip back to her seaside childhood home, Emma discovers that Marianne - as well as other demons in her stories - might be legit, since people in her hometown have reported interactions with the evil spirit who "enters your soul.

At the 2014 Cartoon Movie co-production forum in Lyon, France, I sat in on a pitch session for the strangest animated feature imaginable. This particular film, an artsy — and, fittingly, hand-drawn — indie titled “J’ai perdu mon corps” (or “I Lost My Body”), would be told from the point of view of a severed hand, separated under ambiguous circumstances, and the epic quest to reunite with its owner. I left Cartoon Movie intrigued but also feeling reasonably certain that this defiantly unconventional project would never see the light of day.

Flash forward five years, and “I Lost My Body” not only exists but screened to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was acquired by Netflix and won the top prize in Critics’ Week. In its finished form, director Jérémy Clapin’s peculiar undertaking is even stranger than it sounded to me half a decade earlier, and yet, there’s...

Netflix acquired the worldwide rights to two films that played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Mati Diop’s “Atlantics,” which played in competition, and Jérémy Clapin’s animated film “I Lost My Body,” which won the top prize from the Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar of the festival, the streamer announced Saturday.

For “Atlantics,” Netflix acquired worldwide rights excluding China, Benelux, Switzerland, Russia and France, but it has subscription video on demand (SVoD) rights for 36 months following its theatrical release in France, Benelux and Switzerland. For “I Lost My Body, Netflix acquired worldwide excluding China, Benelux, Turkey and France, but also has SVoD rights for 36 months following its theatrical in France, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.

Diop’s “Atlantics” played in competition and, on Saturday, was awarded the Grand Prix prize from the jury led by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Diop made her feature directorial debut on the film...

Netflix has scooped up the global rights to Cannes Grand Prix Winner Atlantics from female director Mati Diop and the Cannes Critics’ Week Award Winner I Lost My Body from Xilam Animation. That pic reps director Jérémy Clapin’s Animated Feature Debut.

For Atlantics, the deal doesn’t include China, Benelux, Switzerland, Russia, France, while I Lost My Body excludes China, Benelux, Turkey, France. Atlantics was sold by Fionnuala Jamison at mk2 films. I Lost My Body was sold by Carole Baraton at Charades

Atlantics reps Diop’s feature directorial debut and takes place in Dakar along the Atlantic Coast. Seventeen-year-old Ada is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hopes of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread.

Both deals cover the world excluding France and several other territories.

Netflix made its presence felt on closing night in Cannes, swooping on most of the world on both Mati Diop’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Atlantics and Jérémy Clapin’s Critics’ Week winner I Lost My Body.

The streaming titan made a noise with the late pick-ups, despite its deliberate absence from Competition with its original films due to the strictures of French media chronology laws.

Both deals were for the world excluding France, unsurprisingly, as well as China and Benelux. The Atlantics deal also excluded Switzerland and Russia.

A hand-drawn hand stars in French director Jérémy Clapin’s engrossingly lyrical debut, “I Lost My Body,” a life-affirming work of graphic poetry that stands as the sole animated selection at Cannes’ Critics’ Week, where it world-premiered on Friday. Inventively adapted from Guillaume Laurant’s 2006 novel, “Happy Hand,” this bona fide treasure is sure to leave its melancholic fingerprints all over the viewer’s soul.

The film’s title refers to what its protagonist, a severed right hand, would note as its current predicament. Separated from the body of Naoufel (Hakim Faris), an orphaned young man who feels adrift, the sentient extremity escapes the lab where it has been kept since a grim accident caused the detachment.

Suffering from what’s best explained as reverse phantom limb syndrome, the hand aches to reunite with its rightful owner. Clapin, working from a place of utmost earnestness, depicts its voyage through Paris,...

Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name appears to be well on its way to box office and awards success, having earned both this year’s best opening weekend among limited releases and a Best Picture award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film is about an affair between Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious teenager, and Oliver (Armie Hammer), the graduate student who comes to Italy to assist Elio’s father in the summer of 1983. Like 2015’s A Bigger Splash, Guadagnino’s latest features lots of pretty images of beautiful people doing luxurious things, but, as Manohla Dargis contends at The New York Times, it has more than that to offer:Even so, the lyricism seduces as does fragile, ecstatic Elio. “Call Me by Your Name” is less a coming-of-age story, a tale of innocence and loss, than one about coming into sensibility. In that way, it is...

Title: Call Me by Your Name Director: Luca Guadagnino Script: James Ivory Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois, Vanda Capriolo, Antonio Rimoldi, Elena Bucci, Marco Sgrosso, André Aciman, Peter Spears. Italian director, Luca Guadagnino returns to the big screen with a profound coming-of-age story. It is the […]

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It has been a really good time for Trailers lately. The latest in this seemingly endless line of promising looks at potential Oscar fare is Call Me By Your Name, which was the talk of the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The flick could very well be the independent title of 2017, prestige wise. If nothing else, it appears like a powerful and untraditional romance. My hunch is that voters will absolutely eat it up. There’s a lot to like here, to say the least. We’ll be showing you the Trailer to the film at the end of the piece, but first, let us go ahead and dig into it a little bit. The movie is a period romantic drama, based off of the 2007 novel of the same name. Set in Northern Italy during the summer of 1983, the story follows the enamored connection between an American expatriate named...

"Is there anything you don't know?" Sony Pictures Classics has finally released the first official trailer for Call Me By Your Name, Italian director Luca Guadagnino's assured masterpiece that first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year to rave reviews. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, in one of the best performances all year, as a boy living in Italy with his American-Italian family. An older American man, played by Armie Hammer, comes to stay at their house for the summer, and the two slowly fall in love over the course of a summer full of music, food, and romance. The full cast includes Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois, and Vanda Capriolo. I've seen the film twice and it's easily one of my Top 10 films of the year, no question. I wrote in my glowing Sundance review that it's "an utterly sublime cinematic experience that left me floored.

"I am planted within you. I am alone with you." IFC Films has debuted an official Us trailer for the French drama From the Land of the Moon, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year (not this year). This romantic story from filmmaker Nicole Garcia stars Marion Cotillard as a French woman from a small village in the South of France who falls in love with a man she meets in the Alps. Set right at the end of World War II, she is married to a man she doesn't really love, only to find the man she really loves when she goes to a clinic in the mountains to heal her kidney stones. The full cast includes Louis Garrel, Alex Brendemühl, Brigitte Roüan, Victoire Du Bois. From the looks of it, this seems to be a very sensual, sultry thriller about a woman being allowed to be with her true love. Is that so much to ...

After receiving critical acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Luca Guadagnino’s Italian masterpiece, “Call Me by Your Name,” will screen at Berlinale. Based on André Aciman’s beloved 2007 novel of the same name, the drama chronicles a romance between a 17-year old boy and a handsome American intern who is staying at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.

In a new clip shared by Berlinale’s website, audiences witness the young man, Elio’s (Timothée Chalamet), first interaction with Oliver (Armie Hammer). Oliver is seen arriving to the Perlman estate and greeted by Mr. Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his wife. Elio is then called down and takes Oliver’s bags to his room.

In the beginning Elio is somewhat distant towards Oliver until then the two begin to spend more time together. Per the website’s film description, “Elio begins to make tentative overtures towards...

Call Me By Your Name Review Call Me By Your Name (2017), Film Review from the 33rd Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, and Victoire du Bois. As the sleeper hit of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Call Me By Your Name landed softly to critical acclaim that spread rapidly among the […]...

Berlin’s Panorama lineup also includes new films from Us, China and Brazil.

Berlin’s Panorama strand is now complete following the addition of 24 additional titles.

A total of 51 works from 43 countries have been chosen for screening in the section, including 21 in Panorama Dokumente and 29 feature films in the main programme and Panorama Special. 36 of these films will be getting their world premieres at the Berlinale.

The German production Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass will open this year’s edition of Panorama Special at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema, along with the previously announced Brazilian production Vazante.

Among newly confirmed films are UK Sundance title God’s Own Country, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, feminist fairy tale The Misandrists by Berlinale regular Bruce Labruce, Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice and Belgian-French-Lebanese co-production Insyriated which stars Hiam Abbass as a woman trapped in an apartment during war.[p...

Two years after Robert Redford’s last Sundance Film Festival onscreen appearance with Nick Nolte in A Walk In The Woods, the founder of the Utah gathering is back with The Discovery, it was revealed today as the Premieres, Documentary Premieres, Midnight, Spotlight, Kids and Special Events programs were unveiled.

Co-starring past Sundancer Jason Segel and Rooney Mara, the Charlie McDowell-helmed and co-written pic is one of 18 dramas making their world debut at the festival, set for January 19-29. Additionally, Sundance 2017 sees performances by Cate Blanchett, Kevin Spacey, Holly Hunter, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige, Salma Hayek, another trip to Park City for Adam Scott and Alison Brie, Toni Colette, Game Of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway, another film with the deceased Anton Yelchin, Shirley MacLaine, plus the return of 2016 Sff alums Armie Hammer and Riley Keough, among others. Empire co-creator Danny Strong’s directorial debut portrait of J.D. Salinger,...