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Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’ Will Stream on Peacock Next Week
After hitting physical media on Tuesday, Bugonia will begin streaming on Peacock next Friday, December 26.
From director Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Killing of a Sacred Deer), the genre-bending sci-fi black comedy psychological thriller stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.
It follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap a powerful CEO they believe is an alien out to destroy humanity. What begins as a paranoid act spirals into a clash of delusions and control.
After the pair chain her in a basement and come face-to-face with the enemy, the two sides — the tinfoil-hat basement dwellers and the steely, soulless corporate executive — soon find themselves pitched in a battle as viscerally unpredictable as it is provocative.
Will Tracy (The Menu) penned the script, based on Jang Joon-Hwan’s 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet.
Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone round out the cast.
Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) produces alongside Lanthimos, Stone, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee, and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko.
Bugonia is nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and three Critics Choice Awards. It’s also on the Academy Awards shortlist for Cinematography and Original Score.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “The sardonic, genre-bending satire takes aim at modern echo chambers and their erosion of humanity. Lanthimos’ signature ability to skew reality with absurdist humor and style belies a cynical condemnation of our self-destructive nature.”
One of contemporary horror’s best werewolf movies is 2017’s Good Manners, and it’s finally set to receive a proper physical media release.
Icarus Films is partnering with OCN Distribution to unleash a new Blu-ray that’s now available to preorder via Vinegar Syndrome. and with a limited edition slipcover.
Set in São Paulo, the film follows Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of the city who is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon to be born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.
Good Manners is the second collaboration between filmmakers Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, who write and direct. Zama’s Rui Poças‘ cinematography captures this unique werewolf tale described as “Disney meets Jacques Tourneur.”
Our own Trace Thurman wrote in his review, “With Good Manners, Rojas and Dutro have made one of the best werewolf movies ever made. That they are able juggle commentaries on racism and classism while still managing to tell two deeply affecting love stories is remarkable.”
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary from film critics Shelagh Rowan-Legg and Carolyn Mauricette
- 12-page booklet with an essay by film critic Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer
- Making-of short film: The Making of a Werewolf (2 mins)
- Two additional short films from the filmmakers: A STEM (15 mins), directed by Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutras, and DOPPELGANGER (24 mins), directed by Juliana Rojas
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