"He's the menace! He's been at me since the jump." Rialto Distribution in New Zealand is the first to reveal the official trailer for The Rule of Jenny Pen, a horror thriller from the Kiwi filmmaker James Ashcroft. This is his second feature after making Coming Home in the Dark and it's already getting rave reviews. The Rule of Jenny Pen premiered at both Fantastic Fest and at the Sitges Film Festival (where I caught it) earlier this fall. Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse and terrorize the home's residents with deadly consequences. The indie horror film stars John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, and George Henare. Yes this is about an old timer who torments others with a plastic doll he puts on his hand, and it's creepy as hell! One of the most unsettling horror stories I've seen this year - I wrote in my review that "a new horror icon is born." You'd think this would be impossible to pull off, but the performances make it properly scary. // Continue Reading ›
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