Adapted from a short story by Joe Hill, The Black Phone is set in suburban Colorado in 1978. Having directed the first Doctor Strange in 2016, Scott Derrickson dropped out of the sequel to make a creepy horror film redolent of his 2012 hit, Sinister. Released on 1 June in France, 9 June in Singapore, 17 June in the US and 30 June in Germany
Yet it also has a fondness for the characters it depicts, ridiculous as it knows them to be." The two men aren't keen on each other, and they're even less keen on the demanding director whose eccentric rehearsal methods border on torture. "From film festival press conferences to deadly serious discussions about process to unquenchable rivalries," says Sophie Monks Kaufman at The Playlist, "it hits the nail on the head again and again. Banderas is a vapid Hollywood action hero who is hired to star in it, and Oscar Martínez joins them as a snooty theatre veteran who grudgingly agrees to play Banderas's brother. Now, once again, that wrong has been righted by Official Competition, a delicious movie-business satire written and directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn. Cruz is a pretentious art-house director who is adapting a Nobel-prizewinning novel.
Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have been two of Spanish cinema's most glamorous superstars for decades, and yet have only rarely acted on screen together. Released on 3 June in the UK, Ireland and the US "Equal parts confounding, challenging, and insanely fun, Dashcam is horror at its most inventive." But the woman is not quite as harmless as she first appears. "Savage, Hurley, and Shepherd have once again proven a canny ability to tap into the darkest corners of the zeitgeist while producing genuinely entertaining and chilling horror," says Jude Dry at IndieWire. An outspoken Covid-denier and anti-masker, she flies to London to escape US restrictions and ends up giving an old woman (Angela Enahoro) a lift through the countryside in a friend's car. Shot on an iPhone, the film purports to be drawn from a livestream by a Los Angeles-based musician (Annie Hardy). The follow-up from the same director, Rob Savage, and his co-writers, Gemma Hurley and Jed Shepherd, sinks its teeth into the same vein.
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One of the best films of 2020, Host was a low-budget found-footage horror movie which put a demonic twist on all of our pandemic-related fears.