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The end of an era is coming when Stranger Things Season 5 debuts on Netflix, bringing the strange horror of Hawkins to its conclusion. Stakes are at an all-time high for the Duffer Brothers to stick the landing, lest they suffer a Game of Thrones-like crash-and-burn as fans react to the finale. Speaking with the Podcrushed podcast with hosts Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, and Sophie Ansari, Maya Hawke, who plays Robin Buckley in the series, said fans can expect plenty to chew on as the season is massive.

“We’re making, basically, eight movies,” Hawke told the group. “The episodes are very long.”

According to Maya Hawke, Stranger Things Season 5’s production has been incredible to witness throughout 2024, with bold decisions about the show surfacing nonstop. The final season takes place roughly three years after Season 4, explaining why the Hawkins kids are all grown up and still scarred by their abnormal and traumatic past.

Another beloved movie is about to undergo the remake / reboot treatment next year. 1999’s horror-comedy Idle Hands was a box-office bomb on its initial release, but has since entered the realm of cult favorites.

Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) and Billy Bryk have been signed to write a “reimagining” of Idle Hands, which is planned to be released in the summer of 2025. They are also in talks to possibly direct the remake. Wolfhard and Bryk previously worked together on another horror-comedy, Hell of a Summer, which they wrote and directed, and starred in together. The two received a lot of critical acclaim for Hell of a Summer, which is quite a feat given their young ages; Wolfhard is 22, and Bryk is 25.

Finn Wolfhard achieved early notoriety because of his portrayal of Mike Wheeler in Netflix series Stranger Things. He had previously appeared in the series 100 and Supernatural, but as we all remember,...

After being delayed several months by the writers strike and the actors strike, season 5 of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things (which is also the last season of the show) finally went into production at the start of the year and is now deep into its twelve month shooting schedule… and while a premiere date for the last batch of episodes hasn’t yet been announced, it’s drawing near, as evidenced by the recent teaser reveal of every episode’s title. As for what we can expect from the final season of Stranger Things, cast member Finn Wolfhard has let it be known that “a lot of action sequences” is on the list.

Stranger Things has the following synopsis: A love letter to the ‘80s classic genre films that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is a thrilling drama set in the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. After...

Right now, Netflix is deep into production on the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, its hit '80s-themed sci-fi horror series from Matt and Ross Duffer. In the years after Game of Thrones ended on HBO, many television shows have vied to become the next cultural TV phenomenon, but of them all, Stranger Things might be the only that's actually in a comparable league. There's no understating how big this series is and how much it gets people talking, which means there's an awful lot of anticipation to see how it all wraps up in season 5.

But unlike Thrones, Stranger Things doesn't often kill off main characters, at least not from the core group which have been on the show since its opening episodes back in 2016. That includes the kids at the heart of the story: Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo...

The end is closer than originally thought for Netflix tentpole Stranger Things from the Duffer Brothers.

The fifth and final season of the show has been in the works ever since Part 2 of Season 4 arrived in July 2022, with the writers room for the next season opening August that year. A pandemic delaying Season 4’s arrival and then dual Hollywood strikes pushed Season 5 further than originally planned.

Find everything we know about Stranger Things Season 5 below.

When will Stranger Things Season 5 come out?

As of November 6, 2024, Netflix revealed that the final installment of the show looks to a 2025 release window, not 2026 like previously thought with how long production takes.

Production reached the halfway point in July after kicking off in January 2024.

How many episodes are in Stranger Things Season 5?

Season 5 will have eight episodes. Netflix released the episode titles on Nov. 6, 2024, or Stranger Things Day, which is the date of Will...

Netflix has released the teaser trailer for the fifth and final season of the popular Sci-Fi show, Stranger Things. The final season is set to air sometime in 2025. Season 1 of Stranger Things aired in July of 2016. Fans have been engrossed in the show from the beginning.

As the show prepares to air the final season, fans are eager for all information about the show they can get. The new trailer for Season 5 hints that one of the characters is going to “vanish.”

Stranger Things Season 5 Reveals Episode Titles

Netflix released the Stranger Things Season 5 trailer on November 6th. The trailer provided the names of the final episodes of the show. Titles of the episodes include:

The Crawl The Vanishing of (blurred out) The Turnbow Trap Sorcerer Shock Jock Escape From Camazotz The Bridge The Right Side Up In The Fall Of 1987 One Last Adventure Begins A shot of two of...

Netflix is celebrating “Stranger Things Day” by releasing the eight episode titles from the upcoming fifth and final season. November 6th is designated “Stranger Things Day” because it’s the date Will Byers vanished in Hawkins and introduced the world to the Upside Down.

Season five will premiere in 2025, three years after the release of season four. The season five episode titles are as follows:

E1 – The Crawl

E2 – The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler

E3 – The Turnbow Trap

E4 – Sorcerer

E5 – Shock Jock

E6 – Escape from Camazotz

E7 – The Bridge

E8 – The Rightside Up (the perfect series finale title)

“A love letter to the ‘80s classic genre films that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is a thrilling drama set in the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. After a boy vanishes into thin air, his close-knit group of friends and family search for answers and are pulled into a...

Season 5 of ‘Stranger Things’ is coming to Netflix in 2025, and we’ll give you all the details we know so far here!

Does the town of Hawkins, Indiana have a future? Things looked pretty grim for the sleepy Midwestern town at the end of Season 4 of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” but there’s still hope left. Mike, Dustin, Eleven, Lucas, and Will aren’t willing to give up on their efforts to defeat evil once and for all, and they’ll have plenty of help from friends. Will it be enough? When will fans get the chance to find out by watching “Stranger Things” Season 5? We’ll break down everything we know about the final season of the show below!

What Do We Know About “Stranger Things” Season 5 So Far?

Is There a Trailer for ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5?

When Is Season 5 Being Released?

What Will Season 5 Be About?

What Are the Season 5 Episode Titles?...

Stranger Things Season 5 will officially arrive in 2025. Netflix unveiled that the global mega-hit will drop its eight-episode final season in the upcoming year, nearly 10 years after it debuted in 2016. The news comes timed to Stranger Things Day, which commemorates November 6, 1983, the date Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) went missing in the Upside Down after being kidnapped by a Demogorgon. The date also marks the introduction of Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), an extremely powerful young girl who teams up with Will’s friends Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) to find him. Ross Duffer via Instagram The series, a love letter to ’80s classic genre films, has captured the attention of millions, as strange events unfold in the fictional Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. In addition to Season 5’s premiere announcement, Netflix also unveiled the titles for all eight episodes of the forthcoming final chapter. Among the installments are: Episode 1 – “The Crawl,...

Netflix is trying to set the world right-side up again.

On Wednesday, the streaming service revealed the episode titles for the final season of “Stranger Things” – including the forthcoming series finale.

The titles are as follows:

Episode 1

“The Crawl”

Episode 2

“The Vanishing of …”

Episode 3

“The Turnbow Trap”

Episode 4

“Sorcerer”

Episode 5

“Shock Jock”

Episode 6

“Escape from Camazotz”

Episode 7

“The Bridge”

Episode 8

“The Rightside Up”

Of note, is the episode two title. In the teaser released by Netflix, the person, place, or thing that has “vanished” is intentionally blurred out.

The teaser debuted on what Netflix calls “Stranger Things Day” due to the significance of November 6 in “Stranger Things” lore: in the show’s canon, Will Byers (Noah Schapp) disappeared on November 6, 1983, setting off the events of the entire series. Season 5 will take place in the fall of 1987.

“Stranger Things” first debuted in the summer of 2016 – so long ago that Barack Obama...

The fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” will debut in 2025, Netflix announced on Wednesday. To celebrate Nov. 6, 1983, a.k.a. “Stranger Things Day” — the day Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) was abducted into the Upside Down — the streamer also released a video revealing the titles for the final eight episodes, which will conclude the supernatural story of Hawkins, Indiana.

The episode titles are “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of…,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge,” and “The Rightside Up.”

Some of these titles allude to earlier episodes: “The Vanishing of…” — revealed with the name fully obscured — invokes the series premiere “The Vanishing of Will Byers.” Fans online have already speculated that the new abductee could be Holly Wheeler, the younger sister of Mike (Finn Wolfhard) who was reportedly recast with “Evil Dead Rise” actor Nell Fisher, but Netflix has not officially confirmed.

The Season 1 finale was titled “The Upside Down,...

After being delayed several months by the writers strike and the actors strike, season 5 of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things (which is also the last season of the show) finally went into production at the start of the year and is now deep into its twelve month shooting schedule… and during an appearance at the Happy Sad Confused podcast’s 10th anniversary celebration, cast member David Harbour said the series finale will be worth the wait, because it’s the best episode they’ve ever done.

Stranger Things has the following synopsis: A love letter to the ‘80s classic genre films that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is a thrilling drama set in the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. After a boy vanishes into thin air, his close-knit group of friends and family search for answers and are pulled into a high-stakes and deadly series of events.

Stars: Andra Day, Glenn Close, Anthony B. Jenkins, Caleb McLaughlin, Demi Singleton, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Mo’Nique, Omar Epps | Written by David Coggeshall, Elijah Bynum | Directed by Lee Daniels

Across his career, Lee Daniels has directed an array of works which each bring with them Academy Award aspirations. Whether that translates into nominations or not is another story, although Daniels takes a different approach with The Deliverance.

Working off a script by David Coggeshall and Elijah Bynum, Daniels’ sixth feature is a horror film inspired by the real-life Ammons haunting case. Unfolding in Pittsburgh, 2011, the story follows single mother Ebony Jackson (Andra Day) as she struggles to raise her three children. During this, she looks after her elderly mother Alberta (Glenn Close) who has cancer, and fights her own personal demons. They have moved into a new house in the hope of a fresh start, but strange occurrences within raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services,...

David Harbour is giving some insight into the Stranger Things series finale.

The actor participated in the Happy Sad Confused podcast’s 10-year anniversary celebration at New York Comic-Con on Thursday, which included a conversation with host Josh Horowitz, Jack Quaid, Zoë Chao and Jaimie Alexander.

While speaking onstage, Harbour teased the upcoming fifth and final season of the hit sci-fi show, which is currently in production.

“Look, I’m very close to the show, so I have very strong opinions, and they may not match yours if you’re a fan of the show,” he began, via People. “I’m an actor on the show. So I see the nuts and bolts,” adding that he can sometimes be very critical of it and “get very mad” at “a bad episode” or a season he “didn’t like.”

But when it comes to the final Stranger Things episode, which will...

David Harbour is teasing the series finale episode of Stranger Things and calling it the “best” one “they’ve ever done.”

The fifth and final season of the Netflix sci-fi series is coming, and Harbour, who has played Jim Hopper throughout its run, is approving of how the series will wrap up.

“I can be very critical of this show,” Harbour said during a live taping of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, noting that in Stranger Things Season 5, Episode 8, “They land the plane, and it is the best episode they’ve ever done.”

He continued, “The end of this episode when we were reading it — just us reading it — about halfway through, people started crying. Then about the last 20 minutes, it was just uncontrollably crying, waves of different people. Noah Schnapp being my favorite.”

Harbour said that the emotion that overwhelmed the cast was “the fact that these kids, it was their childhood.

The character of Jim Hopper on the hit Netflix series Stranger Things has a tragic history, having lost a young daughter named Sara to cancer – an illness he blames on the fact that he served in the Chemical Corps during the Vietnam War and worked with Agent Orange. Sara was glimpsed in flashbacks in the season 1 finale, where she was played by child actress Elle Graham. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things is currently in production, and Sara will be making another appearance in this last batch of episodes – but that Stranger Things season 1 finale was eight years ago, so Graham, who is now 15 years old, has aged out of the role. That’s why Carmen Cuba Casting has sent out a casting call letting us know that Stranger Things is looking for a new, US-based actress who resembles Graham and can play Sara in Stranger Things season...

The ending of Stranger Things is something fans have been dying to see, especially with all the hype the creators have built up around how the story and characters wrap up. There are still tons of theories floating online, but they’re pretty set on keeping it all under wraps.

Millie Bobby Brown in Stranger Things (Credits: Netflix)

Turns out, Millie Bobby Brown got a sneak peek at how her character’s story ends way before filming even started. She had an idea of what to expect, and even gave fans a little tease about Eleven before production kicked off. The big question is: is it something good or bad?

Millie Bobby Brown Has Known How Eleven’s Story Would End For A Long Time Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in Stranger Things (Credits: Netflix)

The Duffer Brothers shared that they completed filming the fifth and final season of Stranger Things a few months ago.

For years, Hollywood leaned toward casting actors in their late 20s and 30s when it comes to teen roles, as there is often less hassle to work with more experienced actors. Fortunately, Netflix’s Stranger Things, which also served as a big break for the streaming platform, opted to go with actual teens that fit the roles.

Stranger Things | Credit: Netflix

However, considering the major gaps between each release, fans feared that the actors would grow out of their roles, and the recent behind-the-scenes footage only aggravated the situation.

The Stranger Things Cast Look Noticeably Older Than Their Hawkins Counterparts Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and Gaten Matarazzo | Credit: Youtube/Stranger Things

On the occasion of Netflix’s Geeked Week, Stranger Things cast members, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and Gaten Matarazzo joined forces to surprise their superfans. However, throughout the tour of the set that brings the iconic town of Hawkins to life in the show,...

After being delayed several months by the writers strike and the actors strike, season 5 of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things (which is also the last season of the show) finally went into production at the start of the year and is now deep into its twelve month shooting schedule… So deep, in fact, that the cast has gotten together for a read-through the script for the final episode – and while speaking with ComicBook.com, cast member David Harbour revealed there was “heavy weeping” during the reading of that script.

Stranger Things has the following synopsis: A love letter to the ‘80s classic genre films that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is a thrilling drama set in the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. After a boy vanishes into thin air, his close-knit group of friends and family search for answers and are pulled into a high-stakes and deadly series of events.

Maya Hawke is currently filming for the final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things and invited her boyfriend, Christian Lee Hutson, to set while she filmed scenes with co-star Caleb McLaughlin.

The 26-year-old actress was photographed on Tuesday (September 17) laughing alongside her co-star and even cozying up to her boyfriend while they filmed in Madison, Georgia.

Maya joined the cast of Stranger Things in season three as Robin Buckley, Steve’s co-worker at Scoops Ahoy. While there was the initial instinct that the two characters might get together, instead it was revealed that Robin is a lesbian which has led to one of the most beloved friendships on the show between her and Steve.

Filming for season five of Stranger Things began in January 2024 and was announced via a cast photo from the Duffer brothers.

As of July 2024, it was revealed that the production is halfway done filming their final season.

Lee Daniels’ TV series Empire ran for six seasons on Fox, but the director has confirmed that the behind-the-scenes process wasn’t his favorite. In a new interview with The Film Stage, Daniels confirmed he “only did Empire just so I could see what that experience was like.”

As it turned out, it wasn’t great, with Daniels describing the making of Empire as “horrible.” He added, “Absolutely the worst experience. Horrible! But guess what? Fucking that money, money, money! I was able to put my kids through college and shit.

The Deliverance is one of the most anticipated horror films of 2024. Directed by Lee Daniels from a screenplay co-written by David Coggeshall and Elijah Bynum, the Netflix mystery horror film is inspired by a true story known as the Ammons haunting case. The real story on which the film is based took place in Gary, Indiana in 2011 and it revolved around Latoya Ammons, her mother, Rosa Campbell, and her three children.

The real has been changed to make the film good and not boring but there are many scenes in the film that are based on Ammons’ claims, one of which is the one where a child crawls backward up a hospital wall.

Also Read: 13 Best Horror Shows on Netflix Right Now Also Read: Best Horror Movies of 2024 (So Far) The Deliverance – Streaming Release Date (Where & When To Watch It?) Credit – Netflix

The Lee Daniels mystery horror film was bought...

[This story contains spoilers from The Deliverance.]

When Andra Day was considering the lead role of Ebony in Lee Daniels’ latest film The Deliverance, she consulted two entities: God and her mom.

“At first, [her mother] kind of had pause,” Day tells The Hollywood Reporter, admitting she was equally hesitant about dabbling in the satanic realm for the Netflix feature. “She was praying with me about it and through the process. And she has been very clear with me, she said, ‘I’m not going to watch the movie,’ not because she doesn’t think that the message is great. My mother’s just like, ‘Listen, if it ain’t Disney+, I’m out. I see her keeping me awake at night.'” (Laughs.)

The Deliverance, which is now streaming on Netflix after a limited theatrical run, draws from the true story of Latoya Ammons, an Indiana woman who, in 2011, claimed she and her children had been possessed by demons.

Glenn Close collaborated with Lee Daniels for the first time on their new horror film “The Deliverance,” and in an interview with Radio Andy, she said colleagues warned her about the director that “he’s crazy.” That only pushed Close to work with him more.

“For me, that’s a compliment,” the Academy Award nominee said. “A lot of times when people in this business say someone’s crazy it means they don’t suffer fools, and it means they have a vision and it doesn’t always go along with the crowd.”

Close complimented the director for creating an inclusive environment on set. The “Fatal Attraction” star said Daniels would encourage the cast to gather around the monitor after a difficult take. She said most directors would not open themselves up to criticism in the way Daniels did.

“It was one of the most inclusive, creative, challenging, fun experiences of my career,...

Aside from IP with mass appeal and superhero stuff, horror is about the only thing that seems to make any money at the box office these days. That's mostly due to the fact horror movies typically don't cost a whole lot to make, leaving more profit on the table at the end of their theatrical runs. But horror isn't just a reliably popular genre at the box office. It also does well on streaming, where we've actually had some pretty decent offerings in recent years.

By far the best example is "His House," which hit Netflix back in 2020 and was even better than your favorite horror movie. Indeed, the film earned a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and proved that Netflix could be much more than a delivery method for middling Kevin Hart projects and instantly forgettable streaming films. Unfortunately, not all the horror that emerges on Netflix is of quite the same standard.

There’s a line from Glenn Close in the third act of Lee Daniels’ possession horror The Deliverance that is undeniably gasp-worthy — a gratuitous piece of unholy dialogue that would be eyebrow-raising anyway, let alone when delivered by an Egot nominee sporting pointy teeth and demon claws. Whether that line falls on the side of so-wild-it’s-kind-of-great, or just-plain-cringe, it is at least attention-grabbing — which sadly can’t be said for the rest of The Deliverance’s denouement.

The intention is interesting. Daniels — previously behind Precious, The Butler, and most recently The United States Vs. Billie Holiday — places a rare Black lens on the possession-horror subgenre, exploring the trials of single mother Ebony. Her predicament is already precarious: she’s previously spent time in prison; she has issues with alcohol; she’s raising three kids while funding her mother’s (Glenn Close) cancer treatment; social services are constantly circling. She...

Lee Daniels’ new horror film, The Deliverance, has received mixed reviews, but Glenn Close’s performance has been widely praised by fans. Daniels’ film is a supernatural thriller based on the real-life Ammons haunting case. In the film, Andra Day plays Ebony Jackson, a character inspired by Latoya Ammons, while Close plays her religious White mother.

A still from The Deliverance | Credits: Netflix

However, in one unexpectedly light moment, Close delivers a line that almost choked up fans with laughter. The line felt majorly out of place in an otherwise spine-chilling film. While some fans found the moment amusing, others were disappointed that Daniels had an eight-time Oscar nominee deliver such a line.

Glenn Close’s Ridiculous Line In Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance Garners Attention Glenn Close in a still from The Deliverance | Credits: Netflix

Fans were divided on the verdict for The Deliverance, with some saying it was a...

"The Exorcist," "Poltergeist," and... "The Deliverance"? With its wild writing choices, a wig-wearing Glenn Close, and a mounting pile of mostly negative reviews, the new Netflix horror film from Lee Daniels doesn't exactly seem like it's ready to stand among the genre greats. Yet according to Daniels himself, the three movies have something in common: their sets were all supposedly cursed.

"Listen, I read those books about the making of 'Poltergeist' and the making of 'The Exorcist,'" Daniels told Variety in a new interview. "And I'm like, 'Nope, not today, Satan. Ain't happening today up in this motherf***er.'" 

The filmmaker behind "The Butler" and "The Paperboy" may have had some reason to be concerned. Although both of the other movie "curses" mentioned above were likely a combination of coincidence and unsafe working conditions (more on that later), the allegedly true story "The Deliverance" is based on is pretty spooky.

This week has already seen the theatrical re-release of Shaun of the Dead and the Digital debut of Mike Flanagan’s Hush, and that’s only the beginning of this week’s horror releases.

Here’s all the new horror that released Friday, August 30, 2024!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

M. Night Shyamalan’s sixteenth movie Trap was released into theaters by Warner Bros. less than a month ago, and the film has already been released at home today, August 30.

You can rent ($19.99) or purchase ($24.99) Trap on Digital now.

Saleka Shyamalan, Josh Hartnett and Ariel Donoghue star. “A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event.”

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “It’s a simple thriller in terms of plotting, but the film’s complexities lie within its deeply complicated characters.

After a limited theatrical release, Lee Daniels' new supernatural horror film The Deliverance has finally landed on Netflix. Inspired by the terrifying Ammons haunting case, the R-rated movie stars Golden Globe Award-winning actress Andra Day as a struggling single mother who finds herself and her kids fighting for their lives against an ancient demonic force residing in their Pittsburgh home.

Joining Day in the horror flick are Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Mo'Nique, Caleb McLaughlin, Anthony B. Jenkins, Demi Singleton, Omar Epps, Miss Lawrence, Tasha Smith, and others. I'm sure after watching this new movie, you'll be in the mood to want to watch something similar. Of course, you can always count on us at Netflix Life to help you out.

Below, we shared a list of seven scary exorcism movies that are streaming right now on Netflix.

The Conjuring (2013)Director: James WanWriter(s): Chad Hayes and Carey W. HayesCast: Vera Farmiga,...

It's finally the last weekend of August, which means we're getting so close to fall. While the weather might not be totally cooperating just yet, Netflix has already announced its fall movie lineup and continued to announce which series will be back for new seasons throughout the rest of the year. But before we can get into all the good new releases to come very soon, we have to see off August.

This weekend brings not only the last day of August but the first day of September, and a new month always means a long list of new movies on Netflix! The streamer dropped two brand-new series that will have everyone talking, the Greek mythology dark comedy Kaos and the Spanish medical drama Breathless. The new anime series Terminator Zero also arrive this week along with Adam Sandler's latest comedy special, titled Adam Sandler: Love You.

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Andra Day has shared a rendition of classic hymn “I Know Who Holds Tomorrow,” originally written by Ira Stanphill in 1950. The song appears in the opening and closing moments of Lee Daniels’ latest film, The Deliverance, which stars Day.

The movie, out today on Netflix, is a horror film about family living in Indiana who discover strange, demonic occurrences that convince them their house is a portal to hell. Day plays a single mom named Ebony, while Glenn Close co-stars as her mom and Mo’Nique plays a social worker. The cast also includes Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor,...

Lee Daniels’ new horror movie “The Deliverance” marks a reunion for the director and his Oscar-winning “Precious” star Mo’Nique following a yearslong feud.

Despite the animosity that stemmed from Mo’Nique’s public criticism of Daniels and “Precious” producer Oprah Winfrey, the actor never doubted that they would work together again. “He’s my friend,” Mo’Nique told me at the “Deliverance” premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday night at Netflix’s Tudum Theater.

“You ever have somebody in your life where your chemistry is right there but something happened and it pulls you apart, but you don’t forget the heart of the person?” she continued. “You don’t forget the purity of this person and you say, ‘I’m willing to fight for this friendship.’”

Daniels recalled their first day on set of “The Deliverance.” “It was emotional,” he said. “It was like, ‘We had been fighting all this time about what?...

Lee Daniels' new Netflix movie "The Deliverance" is trying to be two things at once. For most of its runtime, it's a down-to-earth family drama with an unapologetically prickly protagonist. Then, the film descends into the hoariest of cliches as it turns into a heavily religious possession horror pic, complete with potty-mouthed demons and children contorting their bodies in unnatural ways. Neither of these approaches are particularly successful together, although the family drama stuff works much, much better than the horror movie trappings. Billing itself as being based on true events (sure), "The Deliverance" is at its best when its focusing on its flawed main character. That would be single mother Ebony Jackson, played with real grit by Andra Day, who starred in Daniels' "The United States vs. Billie Holiday."

Ebony is not a likable character, and the film isn't afraid to lean into that. She drinks too much, and...

There is a warped logic to Lee Daniels, filmmaker of nose-boppingly obvious melodramas and sordid stupidity, moving into horror. In an exorcism film, reason is often the only thing standing in the way of the haunted family getting some relief. But Daniels’ big, broad tone doesn’t lend itself to his ultra-serious tale of addiction,...

Plot: An Indiana family discovers strange, demonic occurrences that convince them and their community that the house is a portal to hell.

Review: Netflix is pretty hit or miss when it comes to their horror releases. While their horror TV output has been impressive, there often seems to be a considerable quality drop when it comes to film. So adding a movie from an Oscar-nominated director seems like a winning formula to break that curse. Unfortunately, no one at Netflix seemed to be aware that Lee Daniels doesn’t know horror. At least, nothing that isn’t extremely stereotypical and repeating beats of other popular films. Because if there’s one thing about The Deliverance that’s clear: it was inspired by much better films.

The story itself follows a basic structure we’ve seen a million times before whether it be The Poltergeist or The Conjuring: a family...

Horror is almost an afterthought in director Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance. The director behind domestic drama Precious and musical biopic United States vs. Billie Holiday draws inspiration from the true story of Latoya Ammons, focusing on the plight of a single mother struggling to survive when her new home harbors an evil that means them all harm. Daniels cuts to the fierce heart of the fictional family at the center of this possession drama, exposing flaws and all, but gets a little too skittish around the horror, so much so that The Deliverance uses the well-trodden exorcism formula to relay didactic faith-based messaging.

Set in Pittsburgh in 2011, single mom Ebony Jackson (Andra Day) has recently moved into a new home with her kids Nate (Caleb McLaughlin), Shante (Demi Singleton), and Andre (Anthony B. Jenkins). It’s a house that appears normal but comes with all the telltale signs of a...

Outer Banks is one of the best teen dramas on TV right now, and it has been since the show premiered on Netflix in 2020. Now, Outer Banks is heading into its fourth season on Netflix this fall. We're still waiting on the premiere date, but we know the interest in the Netflix original series is at an all-time high.

Everybody wants to see Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Jonathan Daviss, Madison Bailey, Rudy Pankow, Drew Starkey, and Carlacia Grant back in the Outer Banks working on finding a new treasure. Luckily, we don't have to wait too long, although Netflix hasn't announced the premiere of the fourth season yet.

There are lots of lists of shows to watch if you like Outer Banks. On them, you'll find all of the latest summer, beach, and teen dramas, but I think Outer Banks fans need more than that. We don't just love the show because it's good vibes.

August is coming to an end and to round out the month, Netflix is adding a few new movies and shows to their lineup. Don't let the small number fool you; some of the new additions are huge shows that many people are looking forward to, including a new animated series, a new dark comedy, and a new thriller.

First up is Kaos! The new series hits Netflix on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. The dark comedy is a retelling of Greek mythology and stars Jeff Goldblum as Zeus, Janet McTeer as Hera, David Thewlis as Hades, and Killian Scott as Orpheus. It also features Aurora Perrineau, Billie Piper, Debi Mazar, and Cliff Curtis. The show follows three humans who discover they have a connection to one another as well as a prophecy that leads them to deal with the arrogant gods.

Take a look at the trailer here:

Next up is The Deliverance!

This week we are blessed with some brand-new series and films, like the Greek god-filled “Kaos” (on Netflix), a Lee Daniels-directed horror thriller called “The Deliverance” (also on Netflix), plus documentaries on Gary Coleman (“Gary” on Peacock) and “Baywatch” (“After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun” on Hulu). Also, we’ve got a new Adam Sandler stand-up special (“Love You” on Netflix) and a “Terminator” anime series (“Terminator Zero” on Netflix). Oh and “Only Murders in the Building” (on Hulu) and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” (on Prime Video) return!

On with the television!

“Kaos” Jeff Goldblum in “Kaos” (Netflix)

Thursday, August 29, Netflix

Charlie Covell, creator of “The End of the F***ing World,” returns with a new series that focuses on Greek gods in modern society who discover that a trio of humans have a mysterious connection that could bring about the end of the f***ing world.

Netflix’s possession horror movie The Deliverance is loosely based on the 2011 account of Latoya Ammons and her family’s haunting, otherwise known as the Demon House. Director Lee Daniels didn’t want to take any chances when it came to broaching the horror tied to Ammons’ account and enlisted an apostle to anoint the set with prayer.

The Deliverance, out now in select theaters before arriving on Netflix August 30, stars Andra Day, Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, Aunjanue Ellis, Caleb McLaughlin and Tasha Smith.

Day plays Ebony Jackson, “a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.”

The project initially came to Daniels shortly after Precious,...

Renowned director Lee Daniels delves into supernaturally charged waters with The Deliverance. Inspired by real haunting claims in Indiana, Daniels spins a tale of single mom Ebony fighting to protect her family from the looming darkness in their new Pittsburgh home. Ebony’s battle unwittingly becomes a struggle against human forces too, as demons lurk within and beyond the house’s walls.

Joining Daniels in bringing this story to life are screenwriters David Coggeshall and Elijah Bynum, adapting the true events, and a stellar cast led by Andra Day. Fans of Daniel’s works know he excels at coaxing tremendous performances from actors, and The Deliverance continues that trend. Day’s raw and lived-in portrayal of Ebony anchors the film, while Glenn Close and Mo’Nique revisit collaborations with Daniels from past triumphs.

Daniels established himself as a director unafraid to wrestle with complex issues of identity and social justice. The...

Lee Daniels’ Netflix haunted house thriller, “The Deliverance,” opens by solemnly promising that it’s “inspired by true events.” It’s a clichéd start to some clichéd horror, but you’ll be rewarded for looking further: as it turns out, those alleged events are just an excuse to explore quieter, and more compelling, truths.

This is thanks, in large part, to a tour-de-force turn from Andra Day as exhausted single mother Ebony. She and her three children have just moved to a new home, and—what with the flies buzzing around the basement, and the kids’ newly weird behavior—it’s pretty clear something is off.

We’ve all seen enough movies to know where this is headed, but it takes Ebony a while to figure it out. And you can’t blame her. She may be dealing with an ancient demon breaking out of Hell, but she’s already...

As a filmmaker, Lee Daniels tends to get slagged off on for being flamboyantly garish and over-the-top. Some of that is deserved, but the truth is that when he’s cooking on all cylinders Daniels is a gifted filmmaker. “The Deliverance” is the sixth feature he has directed, and I’ve been a fan of three of them: “Precious” (2009), his extraordinary tale of a stunted inner-city teenager’s escape from her domestic hell; “The Paperboy” (2012), a bold and unnerving Southern gothic noir; and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” (2021), a musical-political biopic that, while flawed, did a superb job of channeling its subject’s complicated ferocity.

So when I say that “The Deliverance,” a demonic-possession movie that Daniels made for Netflix, is one of his kitschy-extreme schlock extravaganzas, I’m not saying that he’s always like that. But sometimes he is. And “The Deliverance” is not without its socially provocative Daniels undercurrents.

About a month ago, Netflix released a video marking the halfway point of filming on the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. Now, showrunner Ross Duffer has released a new cache of images giving us a behind-the-scenes look at things are going. It's captioned "Weeks 28-30." About a month ago, at the halfway point, it would have been Weeks 24-27. That means Stranger Things has roughly 20 weeks left in its filming schedule, which could take it into mid-January of 2025.

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Stranger Things, and this after it's already been two years since season 4 dropped. It's a good thing that the upcoming fifth season is the last, because if they wait much longer no one is going to buy the core of characters of actors as teenagers anymore.

in the meanwhile, we can enjoy these image dumps. Caleb McLaughlin takes...

Inspired by the alleged 2011 haunting of a rental home in Gary, Indiana, occupied by Latoya Ammons and her three children, Lee Daniels’s The Deliverance generally abides by the tried-and-true Amityville Horror playbook when it comes to its scare tactics. But Daniels isn’t one to turn in an anonymous genre effort, so his stab at a haunted house story leaves plenty of room to explore the toxic cycles of abuse endured by the family at its center, freely indulging his penchant for robust miserabilist melodrama and showy performances.

Ebony (Andra Day) is a single mother from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who’s struggling to provide for her three children, the teenaged Nate (Caleb McLaughlin) and Shante (Demi Singleton) and younger Dre (Anthony B. Jenkins), on a low-wage salary while their estranged father is away on indefinite duty in Iraq. Ebony has also taken in her patronizing mother, Alberta (Glenn Close), while...

A possession horror flick from the Oscar-nominated director of The Butler and Precious, co-written by the filmmaker behind the ill-fated Magazine Dreams, and starring Academy Award nominees Andra Day, Glenn Close, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is probably not something you had on your 2024 bingo card, but it’s exactly what Netflix is making audiences suffer in The Deliverance. And despite its ambitions — and pretensions — The Deliverance does not transcend its genre trappings; it just attempts to ignore them to incredibly dull results.

The Deliverance Review

The film tells the story of a family plagued by strange, demonic occurrences in their otherwise peaceful household, which causes them to become convinced that their house is actually a portal to Hell. The closing credits claim that the script was inspired by the true story of Latoya Ammons, but you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference because of all the generic tropes and formulaic beats it follows.

Lee Daniels’ first-ever horror effort, “The Deliverance,” is not to be confused with 1972’s “Deliverance.” Although, much like John Boorman’s three-time Oscar nominee about idiot canoers going through hell in rural Georgia, it does make movie-watching pretty painful.

Not since “Hillbilly Elegy” has Netflix done Glenn Close so dirty. That’s true even taking into account her small part in the hugely horrible “Heart of Stone” for the streamer last year. “The Deliverance” director Daniels, an ambitious storyteller with an admirably spotty track record, is best known for creating the TV show “Empire” with Danny Strong and, before that, helming the Sundance darling “Precious,”.

Back in 2009, Daniels’ talents as a producer on 2001’s “Monster’s Ball” preceded the success of his eventual Best Picture contender, “Precious,” but the bleak family drama about a Black family living in Harlem is what turned him into a celebrated director. His gritty portrait of...

Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance is, on the one hand, a typical and considered domestic drama about a matriarch (Andra Day) balancing family obligations, alcoholism and a tempestuous relationship with her mother (Glenn Close). On the other hand, it represents the director’s foray into the supernatural. Here, Daniels, the director of slushy films like Precious and The Butler, digs into hauntings and, from them, extracts lessons in faith. It’s possible for both narrative threads to co-exist or intertwine harmoniously, and the film’s structure reveals Daniels’ intention for them to inform one another. But The Deliverance is too choppy an affair, and the mix rarely achieves total coherence.

Taking inspiration from the real-life story of Latoya Ammons, an Indiana woman who claimed that malevolent spirits lurked in her home and possessed her children, Daniels tells the tale of Ebony (Day), a single mother contending with financial problems and state surveillance,...

Sadie Sink is admitting that she didn’t anticipate her “Stranger Things” character Max to be such a breakout star.

The actress told Variety that after joining the hit Netflix series in Season 2 at age 14, she could not have predicted the viral adoration for her role of Max by Season 4. The cliffhanger ending for the season included Max being in a coma after facing off with Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower).

“I really didn’t think people would care all that much about her journey,” Sink said. Even when Max went viral with the “Running Up That Hill” sequence, Sink was still shocked: “I was kind of like, ‘That’s cool.'”

The “A Sacrifice” actress added, “I think I’m definitely numb to a lot of things now, which is a good thing. I think it keeps you stable.”

As for returning for the fifth and final season of the beloved series,...