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The Criterion Channel’s October Lineup Includes ‘Jennifer’s Body’ and Tons of Classic Horror Movies!
It seems Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body was indeed ahead of its time, as the critical reappraisal of the 2009 movie has now led all the way to a Criterion spotlight here in 2021!
The Megan Fox-starring Jennifer’s Body will be making its way onto The Criterion Channel streaming service on October 6, and that’s just the beginning of the Halloween offerings.
Criterion teases, “This October, look back to the origins of the Hollywood horror movie at the studio where some of cinema’s most legendary monsters were born. Or test your stamina against the white-knuckle shocks of film history’s most chilling home-invasion thrillers.”
The 8-film Universal Horror collection includes: Dracula (Spanish-Language Version) (1931), The Mummy (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), The Black Cat (1934), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Raven (1935), The Wolf Man (1941), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
The 20-film Home Invasion lineup features: Blind Alley (1939), The Desperate Hours (1955), Private Property (1960), Viridiana (1961), Cape Fear (1962) , Cul-de-sac (1966), Violence at Noon (1966), In Cold Blood (1967), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Anderson Tapes (1971), The Visitors (1972), Black Christmas (1974), Demon Seed (1977), The Plumber (1979), Angst (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), Bad Influence (1990), Funny Games (1997), Them (2006), Inside (2007).
Both of these collections will be launching on October 1, 2021.
Head over to Criterion’s website for the full October 2021 lineup.
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Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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