‘Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’ Review: Teen Horror so Sweet it’s (Not Even) Scary

Teen Mom Jenelle Evans has some important information to share with her fans about the status of her missing son, Jace Evans. Over the past few weeks, the former MTV star has been going through it with her firstborn son.Jenelle Evans’ fans know that most of the time, the former “Teen Mom” star doesn’t have any use for the police.

For a while, Patrick Mahomes wasn’t sure he was going to meet Taylor Swift.

Steven J. Horowitz The Rolling Stones have released “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” featuring Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder, the second single off of their upcoming album “Hackney Diamonds.” Frontman Mick Jagger penned the languid blues number at his home in London.

They might be on the rocks, but Kyle Richards is still a super supportive wifey!

EXCLUSIVE: Screamfest Horror Film Festival has unveiled the first-wave lineup for its 23rd edition, taking place at the TCL Chinese Theatre from October 10-19, announcing that it will kick off with a screening of Eddie Alcazar’s much-discussed Sundance 2023 mind-bender Divinity.

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Sophia Scorziello editor If you can’t take it with you when you go, then where does it end up? Daniel Brown thought a lot about this before making his upcoming film “Your Lucky Day,” which tells the ironic story of a man who wins the lottery but dies shortly after finding out his numbers hit. First created as short in 2010 starring Rider Strong, the story takes place one Christmas Eve at a corner store called Sip ‘n’ Go, where a white-haired boomer-aged wealthy man wearing a tie stops to scan his lotto tickets.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer The open road is a terrifying place for a young woman in the first look at “Strange Darling,” a horror-thriller from director J.T. Mollner set to premiere at this week’s Fantastic Fest. Described as “one day in the twisted love life of a serial killer,” the project stars Willa Fitzgerald (Amazon’s “Reacher”) and Kyle Gallner (“Smile,” “Scream”).

Plex and conducted by OnePoll, the study also revealed people’s preferences for “spooky” or “scary” content and how it affects other aspects of their lives.Six in 10 said they like spooky movies, not designed with the goal of scaring, but are eerie and sinister. By contrast, only 27% prefer truly scary movies designed to frighten people.Spooky content lovers were also found to be more likely to create a new friendship over a shared interest in the genre (57%), compared to scary content lovers (39%).While over half of Americans (51%) are fans of true crime, both spooky and scary content enthusiasts overwhelmingly agree that fictional horror films and shows are scarier than true crime content (78% and 76%, respectively).And for those in relationships (60%), 63% of couples said they prefer watching spooky content together over scary content (53%).“Regardless if someone prefers spooky over scary or vice versa, there’s a clear, universal appreciation for the world of Halloween-esque content,” said Jason Williams, Product Director at Plex.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, and within days The Exorcist: Believer had been exorcised from its sought-after Friday the 13th release date.The horror sequel will now open a week earlier, while the Meg Ryan-David Duchovny rom-com What Happens Later, also originally scheduled for Eras weekend, will now open in November. The distributors don’t want that T Swift smoke, avoiding going toe-to-toe with what is shaping up to be the behemoth box office release of the fall.The cinema landscape would have looked mighty different were it not for the WGA and SAG strikes, which have stretched on for months, halting production and silencing striking actors, who are prohibited by their union from promoting major movie titles.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier will next direct “Sentimental Value,” a family drama starring Renate Reinsve, who won best actress in Cannes for her role in Trier’s Oscar-nominated 2021 film “The Worst Person of the World.” “Sentimental Value” will follow Nora (Reinsve), an actor, and her sister Agnes, who are grieving the loss of their mother while their father Gustav reappears in their lives after a long absence. Gustav, a once-celebrated filmmaker, has written a script for a comeback movie and offered the main part to his daughter Nora, but she categorically refuses the role.

Rolling Stone and co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, has said female and black artists aren’t “intellectual enough” to be interviewed for his new book, The Masters.Within the book, Wenner asks questions of seven “philosophers of rock”, notably all white men – Bono, Bob Dylan, the late Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, the late John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pete Townshend.In the introduction of the book, Wenner writes that women and artists of colour were not in his zeitgeist. He faced questions about this in an interview with David Marchese of The New York Times, and argued it wasn’t a “deliberate selection”.“It was kind of intuitive over the years; it just fell together that way. The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them.

Guy Lodge Film Critic That perky exclamation point sets the tone for “Coup!,” a story of murder, class struggle, One Percent entitlement and a global pandemic that nonetheless unfolds with all the eager, scrappy energy of an off-Broadway musical, minus most of the songs. The pandemic in question is not the one you’re thinking of — Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman’s puckish comic thriller unfolds against the dire backdrop of the 1918 Spanish Flu — but it also sort of is, as its study of wealthy exceptionalism in a time of national crisis is clearly intended to chime with more recent memories of regimented distancing and mixed safety messages from on high.

Jennie Punter TORONTO: “Humanist Vampire,” “Solo” Heat Up Market for Toronto’s Quebec Feature Slate By Jennie Punter Toronto has long been a go-to place for Quebec filmmakers to launch new work, connect directly to the U.S. marketplace and, by extension, propel their careers to the next level — Denis Villeneuve, Phillippe Falardeau and Jean-Marc Vallée, for example, premiered most of their early films here.

Comedian and impersonator Mike Yarwood has died aged 82, the Royal Variety Charity has announced. A household name in the 1960s and 1970s Mike delighted audiences with his impressions of politicians and other celebrities.

Canadian director Ariane Louis-Seize’s comedy-drama Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person has scooped the Director’s Award at Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori.

It's hard to believe that it was 12 years ago that Scott McCall entered our lives as the hapless lacrosse-playing high school teen who turned into a werewolf and looked after his Californian town - which just so happened to be a beacon for magical monsters.Teen Wolf character Scott, who was played by actor Tyler Posey, was enlisted to protect his friends and family from a bunch of supernatural creatures after being bitten by an alpha werewolf the night before his second year in high school, changing his life forever. Cue help from loveable and hilarious best friend, Styles Stilinksi, played by Dylan O'Brien, and newbie to the school and soon-to-be love of his life, Allison Argent, played by Crystal Reed.

AppleTV+ on Friday, Sept. 8, the show (starring and executive produced by Stanfield) is a fantasy-horror that’s captivating, even if the story is all over the place.

New footage of Wendy Williams has surfaced — and she does not seem exactly her old self in it.

Liberty Strategic Capital, a private equity fund led by former Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, has acquired a hefty 5.5% stake in Lionsgate at a strategically sensitive moment for the company as it prepares to close a $500 million acquisition of eOne and plans to split up its studio and streaming businesses.