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‘Fresh’ Gets a Truly Unappetizing New Poster
Searchlight Pictures, the specialty distributor behind David Bruckner’s The Night House and Radio Silence’s Ready or Not, is serving up their next horror entree, Mimi Cave‘s batshit insane Fresh, which streams exclusively on Hulu next month.
Fresh looks at “the horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites.”
There’s a bit of a battle to contain spoilers and the first poster for Fresh, revealed alongside the trailer here, gives it all away. It’s debatable if this plot point is even a spoiler, but for the sake of Bloody Disgusting readers, we’ll just continue to assume it is.
Digressing, the newest poster is spoiler-free, but man is it unappetizing. While it’s got a retro classic thriller appeal, the design work is bizarre, elongating star Daisy Edgar-Jones‘ neck and clunkily jamming antagonist Sebastian Stan behind her. The point of the sideways “E” is lost, although I suppose it could represent a fork or the letter “M” for “meat”? It’s all red probably because blood? Only the designer knows.
In the film…
“Frustrated by scrolling dating apps only to end up on lame, tedious dates, Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) takes a chance by giving her number to the awkwardly charming Steve (Sebastian Stan) after a produce-section meet-cute at the grocery store. During a subsequent date at a local bar, sassy banter gives way to a chemistry-laden hookup, and a smitten Noa dares to hope that she might have actually found a real connection with the dashing cosmetic surgeon. She accepts Steve’s invitation to an impromptu weekend getaway, only to find that her new paramour has been hiding some unusual appetites.”
Fresh had its World Premiere at last month’s Sundance Film Festival where Meagan reviewed the film, writing that the film “serves up carnivorous but unsatisfying meat-cute tale.
The full course is served March 4 only on Hulu.
The next V/H/S installment is on the way, this time from producer Roy Lee (Weapons, IT), and it’s landed on its new theme.
Spooky Pictures and Image Nation are teaming to produce V/H/S: SCP, Variety reports, and it’ll be the first feature-length addition to the online collective fiction project, the SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation.
The SCP Foundation began in 2008 as a collaborative digital project and has since grown into one of the largest fan-driven horror and sci-fi universes online. You can get acquainted with the SCP Foundation via Bloody FM’s SCP Archives podcast.
V/H/S: SCP will be framed as “’recovered field documentation,’ or video evidence gathered, redacted, and archived by the secretive organization. Standalone segments in the anthology will focus on different objects, entities, or events under the containment-breach narrative.”
Spooky Pictures is headed by genre veterans Steven Schneider (Insidious, Paranormal Activity) and Roy Lee (Weapons, IT). They’ll be joined by Josh Goldbloom (V/H/S/94, V/H/S/99, V/H/S/Halloween) and Michael Schreiber (V/H/S/94, V/H/S/Beyond) as producers.
“The horror genre continues to be a remarkable launchpad for new talent to share original creations, and the vast SCP universe has provided a vital incubator for this creativity to thrive,” Spooky Pictures co-founder Steven Schneider said. “Along with INS, this next project reinforces our shared commitment to look in new and unexpected spaces for stories. We can’t wait to expand the V/H/S franchise with new, fresh, and terrifying stories that will keep viewers coming back for more.”
V/H/S launched in 2012, followed by 2013’s V/H/S/2, 2014’s V/H/S: Viral, 2021’s V/H/S/94, 2022’s V/H/S/99, 2023’s V/H/S/85, 2024’s V/H/S/Beyond, and 2025’s V/H/S/Halloween.
The upcoming installment marks the ninth film in this franchise.
The SCP Foundation is a worldwide force dedicated to securing, containing, and protecting anomalies from people – At least according to the lore of the website.
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