In the latest Blumhouse Productions film, Unfriended, Heather Sossaman plays Laura Barns, a popular high school girl who commits suicide after an embarrassing video of her at a party gets around. A year later, a group of friends gather together online for a conversation on Skype, but they soon find that they have an uninvited guest who has access to Laura’s Facebook account. From there everything goes haywire, as the teens try to discover who, or what, is terrorizing them.
A dangerous game is played in a very hostile environment in Beyond the Reach, the latest film from director Jean-Baptiste Léonetti. The story opens up on Ben (Jeremy Irvine), a young tracker in the southwest who gets an offer he can’t refuse from a rich and powerful businessman named Madec (Michael Douglas).
She first rose to fame as Miss Teen USA before becoming a favorite of soap opera fans as Stephanie Johnson on Days of our Lives and more recently, as Mali Tate on the MTV series Teen Wolf. Now, however, Shelley Hennig is taking on the silver screen with a leading role in Unfriended.
Actor, writer and director Mark Duplass takes another step into the horror genre with The Lazarus Effect, a Blumhouse production directed by David Gelb. In the film, Duplass stars as Frank, an ambitious scientist who has created a serum nicknamed “Lazarus,” which has the power to bring the dead back to life. During one particular experiment, his wife Zoe (Olivia Wilde) dies in a freak accident and he quickly uses the serum to resurrect her. While it does work, Frank and his team being to wonder if they have accidentally unleashed an evil force that cannot be contained.
The latest effort from Blumhouse Productions is The Lazarus Effect, a supernatural horror movie which stars Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass as a pair of scientists who work on perfecting a serum that can bring the dead back to life. During one particular experiment, however, Wilde's character is accidentally electrocuted and dies almost immediately. Struck down with grief, Mark decides to give her the serum. Though it does bring her back to the land of the living, she's not exactly the same person that she was before her death.
Salma Hayek returns to her action packed ways in the new thriller Everly. In the film she plays the titular woman, who's kidnapped by a crime organization and forced into prostitution against her will. Everly is held prisoner at a nice upscale apartment, but after four years in captivity, she decides to turn the tables on her captors in an effort to rescue her mother and baby girl from those who have stolen her freedom. Getting out of that apartment, however, proves to be far more difficult than she realizes.
Ever since the musical came back into vogue in Hollywood, we have been treated to some enormous spectacles, what with the cinematic adaptations of Les Miserables and Into the Woods. That’s what makes the latest musical adaptation, The Last Five Years, exceptionally unique, as it is far more concerned with its characters than it is with wowing you with incredible sights and sounds.
Just when you think there has been one mockumentary too many, along comes What We Do in the Shadows. Written, directed by and starring Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, the film follows a group of four vampires who share an apartment together in Wellington, New Zealand.
