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NEON Continues to Tease Mysterious 2024 Horror Movie With Another Creepy Video [Exclusive]
The most interesting horror movie marketing campaign of the new year thus far has been for a mysterious upcoming movie from distributor NEON, which kicked off last week with an ultra creepy teaser that got the horror community talking. The viral marketing clip ran just 35-seconds long, beginning with a retro-looking family photo of a mother, father and daughter.
A call to 911 played over top of the photo, with the father explaining to the operator that something has happened to his daughter. “That’s not my daughter,” he says at one point during the chilling call, and the clip ends with what looks to be a crime scene photo. There were also strange symbols throughout the video, which many fans immediately got to work on decoding.
Many horror fans believe the teaser was for NEON’s upcoming horror movie Longlegs, but there’s been no official word from NEON since the teaser dropped last week. Other fans are convinced it’s from a totally different horror movie on the company’s 2024 slate: Cuckoo.
Our best guess is that it’s Longlegs, a hotly anticipated serial killer horror movie from director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel). Nicolas Cage stars alongside Maika Monroe, with Monroe playing an FBI agent and Cage playing a serial killer.
In the film, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.”
This second cryptic teaser runs 37-seconds long, and it features a clip of an FBI agent discovering *something* hidden beneath the floorboards of a house. This lines up with the plot synopsis for Longlegs, which again features Maika Monroe as an FBI agent. The teaser is also filled with quick shots of crime scene photos, showing a bloody knife and various dead bodies.
Like the first teaser, a voice speaks over top of the eerie visuals in this one. “Are you still saying your prayers?” the voice asks. “Our prayers protect us from the Devil.”
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The filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are expanding their public domain horror universe with a handful of upcoming “Poohniverse” movies, including Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.
Variety has scored the first image from Neverland Nightmare, seen above.
The website details, “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from ‘the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.’ Along the way she meets Tinkerbell, who in this twisted version of the story will be seen taking heroine, convinced that it’s pixie dust.”
Scott Jeffrey will direct Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, expected Halloween 2024.
Jeffrey tells us, “I am taking inspiration from French cinema while in prep for this movie. The film will be incredibly tense. I would say it’s a mesh between Switchblade Romance and The Black Phone with our own spin on it. It is a nasty, violent and incredibly dark movie.”
Megan Placito has joined the cast as Wendy Darling, Kit Green is Tinkerbell, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney (The Pope’s Exorcist) is Michael Darling and Charity Kase (RuPaul Drag Race) is James. Martin Portlock will be playing the twisted version of Peter Pan.
Created by J.M. Barrie way back in 1902, the character of Peter Pan – like Winnie the Pooh – is in the public domain, even if the iconic Disney iteration of the character is very much not.
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