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James Wan and Alex Aja Are Making a Horror Movie Together!

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What will happen when two of the most influential horror filmmakers align?

Lionsgate and Saw creator James Wan are reuniting on a new thriller that also reunites the studio with High Tension‘s Alexandre Aja.

Lionsgate has acquired rights to the thriller Smart House with Wan attached to produce and Aja directing, Variety reports.

Smart House is a thriller about a family in the witness protection program placed in the custody of a state of the art, autonomous ‘smart house.’ When a group of assassins locates the family, the house goes into a lethal defense mode.

Smart House is based on an original idea by Wan, who will produce the film under his Atomic Monster company banner with head of production Michael Clear.

Aja, whose directing credits include Piranha 3D and The Hills Have Eyes, will direct from a script by Brad Keene. Aja is also a producer on the film along with Gregory Levasseur.

Wan directed Lionsgate’s original SAW movie, which was his first feature film, and executive produced all its sequels. He was also the director of the first two Insidious and The Conjuring films. Atomic Monster has produced the films Lights Out, Annabelle, the upcoming Annabelle 2 and The Nun along with the CBS/Lionsgate television series “MacGyver,” airing on CBS.

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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