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Sony’s Hoping Scott Derrickson’s ‘Beware The Night’ Is The Next ‘Conjuring’; Shifts Release Date
Fans of director Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister) will be stoked to learn that Beware the Night, his Jerry Bruckheimer-produced supernatural thriller, is coming out almost a full six months early on July 2nd, 2014. Originally the film was pegged for January 2015, but it seems as though Screen Gems has high confidence that the piece can thrive in the more competitive summer environment. In short, they’re hoping it’s next year’s The Conjuring.
The film stars Eric Bana, Joel McHale, Sean Harris and Olivia Munn. It “centers around a New York street cop (Bana) who has put his faith in religion behind him but now finds himself targeted by the Devil in the form of possessed soldier (Harris).” Derrickson wrote the script with Paul Harris Boardman.
I spent some time on the set of the film over the summer and, while I can’t give any details for probably another 6 months, I’m very much looking forward to checking it out.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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