"It will only be a matter of time before he is made to pay the ultimate price for dabbling in the dark side of his own desire." Dark Star has revealed an official trailer for a freaky, twisted, disquieting horror anthology feature titled Midnight Peepshow, made in the UK. This premiered at FrightFest 2022 and is only now getting a direct-to-video release over here. An unnamed madame operates a unique peep show that caters to its customers deepest desires, fears, and sins. Tonight, it welcomes a businessman with a unique connection to an extreme fantasy website. Soon he will become a witness to three stories of victims that found the dark web site. It's only a matter of time before he's made to pay the ultimate price for dabbling in the dark side of desire. Starring Zach Galligan, Chiara D'Anna, Richard Cotton, Sarah Diamond, Jamie Bacon, and Derek Nelson. Another online streaming voyeurs torture horror concept,...
- 2/18/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Because nothing says romance like cuddling up with your significant other – or yourself! – and watching horror movies on Valentine’s Day, this week brings along with it a handful of brand new horror movie releases. And most of them are already available at home Today.
Here’s all the new horror released on February 13, 2024!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
The classic story of Alice in Wonderland can easily be tweaked into a horror tale, and that’s probably why it’s been done several times over the years. Up next is the indie horror movie Alice in Terrorland, which High Fliers Films just released on VOD and DVD today.
In Richard John Taylor’s Alice in Terrorland, “A recently bereaved teenage girl goes to live with her aunt in a secluded woodland house, unaware that sinister forces lurk within.”
Rula Lenska, Steve Wraith,...
Here’s all the new horror released on February 13, 2024!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
The classic story of Alice in Wonderland can easily be tweaked into a horror tale, and that’s probably why it’s been done several times over the years. Up next is the indie horror movie Alice in Terrorland, which High Fliers Films just released on VOD and DVD today.
In Richard John Taylor’s Alice in Terrorland, “A recently bereaved teenage girl goes to live with her aunt in a secluded woodland house, unaware that sinister forces lurk within.”
Rula Lenska, Steve Wraith,...
- 2/13/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
UK sales agent and genre specialist Jinga has added Craig Tuohy’s Everyone Is Going To Die and Matthew Freiheit’s Iconic to its European Film Market slate.
US thriller Everyone Is Going To Die follows a father and daughter who become the victims of a home invasion while trying to reconnect on a rural retreat. It stars Brad Moore, Gledisa Arthur, Jamie Winstone and Chiara D’Anna while Vinod Malgewar and Tim Le Breton produce for Golden Gate Motion Pictures.
Also on Jinga’s slate is erotic thriller Iconic following an influencer slowly losing her mind as she’s hit with an online scandal,...
US thriller Everyone Is Going To Die follows a father and daughter who become the victims of a home invasion while trying to reconnect on a rural retreat. It stars Brad Moore, Gledisa Arthur, Jamie Winstone and Chiara D’Anna while Vinod Malgewar and Tim Le Breton produce for Golden Gate Motion Pictures.
Also on Jinga’s slate is erotic thriller Iconic following an influencer slowly losing her mind as she’s hit with an online scandal,...
- 2/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
The horrors of the dark web are explored in Dark Star Pictures’ next movie Midnight Peepshow, and Bloody Disgusting is exclusively debuting the trailer this afternoon.
Meet the Black Rabbit on Digital and DVD on February 13, 2024.
And take a peep down the rabbit hole with the official trailer below…
In Midnight Peepshow we are introduced to an unnamed Madame who owns and operates a peepshow offering patrons a tailor-made experience wrapped around their deepest desires, fears, and sins. Tonight, it welcomes a businessman who has a unique connection to an extreme fantasy website on the dark web. He soon becomes a witness to three stories of victims that found the same website, and now the Midnight Peepshow has found him.
“It will only be a matter of time before he is made to pay the ultimate price for dabbling in the dark side of his own desire.”
Airell Anthony Hayles,...
Meet the Black Rabbit on Digital and DVD on February 13, 2024.
And take a peep down the rabbit hole with the official trailer below…
In Midnight Peepshow we are introduced to an unnamed Madame who owns and operates a peepshow offering patrons a tailor-made experience wrapped around their deepest desires, fears, and sins. Tonight, it welcomes a businessman who has a unique connection to an extreme fantasy website on the dark web. He soon becomes a witness to three stories of victims that found the same website, and now the Midnight Peepshow has found him.
“It will only be a matter of time before he is made to pay the ultimate price for dabbling in the dark side of his own desire.”
Airell Anthony Hayles,...
- 1/9/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Company will also represent the film for international sales.
Dark Star Pictures has announced a worldwide acquisition of the horror anthology Midnight Peepshow that closed in the final days of the Cannes market.
The film centres on a peepshow that offers bespoke experiences tailored to customers’ deepest desires, fears, and sins.
When the peepshow finds a businessman with a unique connection to an extreme fantasy website on the dark web, he is made to pay a high price for dabbling in the dark side of his desires.
Airell Anthony Hayles, Andy Edwards, Jake West and Ludovica Musumeci each directed a segment of Midnight Peepshow,...
Dark Star Pictures has announced a worldwide acquisition of the horror anthology Midnight Peepshow that closed in the final days of the Cannes market.
The film centres on a peepshow that offers bespoke experiences tailored to customers’ deepest desires, fears, and sins.
When the peepshow finds a businessman with a unique connection to an extreme fantasy website on the dark web, he is made to pay a high price for dabbling in the dark side of his desires.
Airell Anthony Hayles, Andy Edwards, Jake West and Ludovica Musumeci each directed a segment of Midnight Peepshow,...
- 6/1/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
★★★★☆ Hot on the heels of his lyrical horror flick Berberian Sound Studio (2012), Peter Strickland returns in fine form with his most tender picture, The Duke of Burgundy (2014). With an all-female cast, sex politics and the limits of love are put under the microscope for examination here. There's nothing but poetry in each shot; Strickland has crafted for his viewers another thoroughly rich and engrossing world, so familiar in sight but unknown in time and place. This film is destined to become another landmark in cinema, as its already sure to establish Strickland as one of the most effective directors working today. Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) is a lepidopterist, Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) is her assistant and lover.
- 4/28/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
In this excerpt from The Guardian Film Show the team review Peter Strickland's strange romance about two women with a passion for butterfly collecting and Bdsm. The Duke of Burgundy, which stars Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara D'Anna as lovers trying to stop their unconventional sex life from straying into dull repetition, is released in the UK on Friday
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- 2/19/2015
- by Henry Barnes, Catherine Shoard, Benjamin Lee, Paul Frankl, Mona Mahmood and Joan Portillo
- The Guardian - Film News
What is in a namec What's in a wordc What does it mean when a director populates a scene with extras, two of which just happen to be dressed up mannequinsc Writer/director Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy requires you to ask such questions, even if the answer is... "because". To begin, the story centers on Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen), a woman who studies butterflies and has developed a sadomasochistic relationship with Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna), at Evelyn's request. A sort of dramatic tension and almost horror comes as the limits of Cynthia's love and willingness to do, and go along with, Evelyn's requests are tested. It's a story that's equally romantic as it is unsettling and doesn't test the audience's limits with its sexual exploration as much as it isn't afraid to go down some rather disturbing alleys for those of us that wouldn't dare go there. I can say more,...
- 2/17/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
In new film The Duke of Burgundy, Sidse Babett Knudsen plays Cynthia, the very strict mistress of a large house in an unnamed European country, while Chiara D'Anna portrays her much put-upon maid, Evelyn. Or do they? Actually no, they do not. Cynthia and Evelyn, as the viewer swiftly discovers, are in fact lovers who repeat the same mistress-servant scenario over and over again, to the joy of the latter and the increasing frustration of the former.
- 1/22/2015
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
Plot: A young woman (Chiara D'Anna) and her older lover (Sidse Babett Knudsen) embark on a sadomasochistic relationship full of role-playing. But in the end, who is dominating who? Review: I'm well aware that the quick plot description above probably makes Peter Strickland's Duke Of Burgundy sound like a tantalizing mix of Blue Is The Warmest Color and 50 Shades Of Grey, but for all its controversy (having landed an 18 rating in the UK) this is a relatively tame film that's less...
- 1/19/2015
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Rooted in the plot-flouting sentiments of the 20th century avant-garde, "The Duke of Burgundy" sets out to create an intense sensory experience. Like another recent film, Alain Guiraudie's all-gay-male "Stranger by the Lake," the all-female "Duke" is a tender love story trapped in an arthouse horror movie, an elegant study of the psychological and physical debasement that accompanies desire, warts and all. Brit director Peter Strickland's third film after "Katalin Varga" and "Berberian Sound Studio" takes the relationship between middle-aged butterfly expert Cynthia (Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen) and her younger, more servile and punishment-seeking companion Evelyn (the wide-eyed Chiara D'Anna) to extremes. We're confined to a gothic lair that exists somewhere outside of time. Beveled mirrors, lavishly displayed butterfly specimens and baroque architecture adorn its walls and between them, the lovers engage in kinky games...
- 1/19/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
"This is all I have dreamed about..." IFC has debuted the first trailer for Peter Strickland's new film The Duke of Burgundy, a seductive and creepy little thriller. Strickland's last film was the mesmerizing Berberian Sound Studio with Toby Jones, which was quite a trip if you saw it. This new one has much of the same, it's twisted and weird and eerie, using cinema to evoke and provoke. The Duke of Burgundy stars Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara D'Anna as two women who get into a tricky relationship. The film received quite a bit of buzz out of Tiff and Fantastic Fest this year, with many critics calling it one of the best discoveries of this year's fall film fests. It's worth a look, especially if you're curious about butterflies. Here's the first official trailer for Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy, in high def from Apple:...
- 12/18/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Director Peter Strickland turned heads amongst cult film circles with his Berberian Sound Studio, a lushly realized tip of the hat to the classic giallo styles of the 1970s that honored the past while also working in Strickland's own unique voice. He does the same with his latest effort, The Duke Of Burgundy, an absolutely gorgeous erotic drama that may not be for everyone but will surely be greatly beloved by a certain tier of cineaste.Day after day, Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) act out a simple yet provocative ritual that ends with Evelyn's punishment and pleasure. As Cynthia yearns for a more conventional relationship, Evelyn's obsession with erotic spells quickly becomes an addiction that may push the relationship to a breaking...
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- 12/18/2014
- Screen Anarchy
In the arena of buzzworthy, hot-under-the-collar movies, "Fifty Shades Of Grey" wasn't alone this year. Peter Strickland's "The Duke Of Burgundy" conjured up its own sexually twisted spell on the festival circuit, and now it's headed to cinemas where you too can get turned on in the dark. The latest from the "Berberian Sound Studio" filmmaker stars Sidse Babett Knudsen (of "Borgen" fame) and Chiara D'Anna, and follows the lesbian, sadomasochistic relationship between a lepidopterist and her domestic servant/slave. Take that corporate, vanilla shill Christian Grey. And Strickland uses the setting to spark the senses, with our review (as you'll see in the trailer) calling it a picture that "creates a spell that had us hypnotized, immersed, and still awestruck. It’s the kind of movie that has us falling in love with movies all over again." "The Duke Of Burgundy" opens on January 23rd. Watch below.
- 12/17/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
For some, movies are occasionally too violent, vulgar or plain boring to sit through. Ryan recalls some memorable cinema walk-outs...
For better or worse, there’s nothing quite like watching a movie in the cinema. There’s the sense that you’re all sharing a new experience. The feeling of expectancy when a movie the whole audience has been looking forward to seeing unfolds on the screen. The enjoyment of laughing in unison at a golden comic moment.
On the flip side, there’s the uniquely unpleasant sensation of a person behind you kicking the back of your seat. Or the horrendous human being who can’t resist checking his phone for the duration of a movie, meaning you end up having to ignore an eerie blue glow emanating from the corner of your eye for about 120 minutes.
Memories like these, whether good or bad, are all part of the cinema-going experience,...
For better or worse, there’s nothing quite like watching a movie in the cinema. There’s the sense that you’re all sharing a new experience. The feeling of expectancy when a movie the whole audience has been looking forward to seeing unfolds on the screen. The enjoyment of laughing in unison at a golden comic moment.
On the flip side, there’s the uniquely unpleasant sensation of a person behind you kicking the back of your seat. Or the horrendous human being who can’t resist checking his phone for the duration of a movie, meaning you end up having to ignore an eerie blue glow emanating from the corner of your eye for about 120 minutes.
Memories like these, whether good or bad, are all part of the cinema-going experience,...
- 10/17/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
From the director of the one-of-a-kind sonic horror Berberian Sound Studio comes the equally unpredictable Duke Of Burgundy...
British writer-director Peter Strickland’s previous film was the unique blast of sound and surrealism, Berbarian Sound Studio, a frighteningly weird period piece about the making of a lurid Italian horror film and its sound engineer’s gradual sinking into madness.
Strickland's debut saw him head to Transylvania to shoot Katalin Varga, a foreign-language revenge picture, with just £28,000 inherited from his uncle. With movies like those behind him, you can bet that what is ostensibly a drama about a commanding writer and butterfly collector, Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and her kinky relationship with her maid, Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) would have more going on than it first appears. Strickland’s previous fascination with the distinctive style of 60s and 70s Italian filmmaking continues here, with The Duke Of Burgundy’s fluid camerawork and...
British writer-director Peter Strickland’s previous film was the unique blast of sound and surrealism, Berbarian Sound Studio, a frighteningly weird period piece about the making of a lurid Italian horror film and its sound engineer’s gradual sinking into madness.
Strickland's debut saw him head to Transylvania to shoot Katalin Varga, a foreign-language revenge picture, with just £28,000 inherited from his uncle. With movies like those behind him, you can bet that what is ostensibly a drama about a commanding writer and butterfly collector, Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and her kinky relationship with her maid, Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) would have more going on than it first appears. Strickland’s previous fascination with the distinctive style of 60s and 70s Italian filmmaking continues here, with The Duke Of Burgundy’s fluid camerawork and...
- 10/15/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Peter Strickland has been making movies for a while now, but it was 2012's "Berberian Sound System" that fully put him on the map. It was a unique, distinct thriller, with a style all its own, and for his followup, "The Duke Of Burgundy," he doesn't shy away from following his storytelling muse down the weirdo rabbit hole. Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen (of "Borgen" fame) and Chiara D'Anna, the unique movie tells the story of the lesbian, sadomasochistic relationship between a lepidopterist and her domestic servant/slave. Yeah, you're not gonna hear that logline for at least the rest of this year, or next. But the movie is a knockout, with our review out of Tiff calling it "a work of immense and intense emotional vigor, sprinkled with fun-loving traits and intellectually stimulating prowess." Now you can get a taste of all of that with this lengthy first clip below.
- 9/19/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Like wild geese in reverse, movie lovers and the press corps head to the Great White North in early September— specifically, to the Toronto International Film Festival, which ended yesterday — for any number of reasons: to catch up with some of the best movies of the previous Sundance and Cannes as the flicks make one last fest-circuit stop; to see stars in their natural habitat, i.e. on a red carpet with microphone shoved in their faces; to stumble across something weird, wild or off-the-world-cinema grid that may not be coming soon,...
- 9/15/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Our pick of the best homegrown movies due to be released over the next 12 months
Posh
Tally ho and off to bally old Oxford where The Riot Club - a fictionalised version of the Boris 'n' Dave-endorsed Bullingdon Club - make sport of bullying and humiliation. Based on the play by Laura Wade, Lone Scherfig's version has Max Irons, Douglas Booth and Hunger Games star Sam Clafin among the toffs making trouble for the owners of a rural pub. Promises an evening's entertainment laced with drink, sex and violence. Chin up, chin up and play the game. 19 September
Pride
Based on a true story set in the midst of the Thatcher years. Tony award-winning theatre director Matthew Warchus's film follows a group of gay and lesbian activists who decide to raise money for the families of striking miners. Faced with a National Union of Mineworkers too embarrassed to take money from them,...
Posh
Tally ho and off to bally old Oxford where The Riot Club - a fictionalised version of the Boris 'n' Dave-endorsed Bullingdon Club - make sport of bullying and humiliation. Based on the play by Laura Wade, Lone Scherfig's version has Max Irons, Douglas Booth and Hunger Games star Sam Clafin among the toffs making trouble for the owners of a rural pub. Promises an evening's entertainment laced with drink, sex and violence. Chin up, chin up and play the game. 19 September
Pride
Based on a true story set in the midst of the Thatcher years. Tony award-winning theatre director Matthew Warchus's film follows a group of gay and lesbian activists who decide to raise money for the families of striking miners. Faced with a National Union of Mineworkers too embarrassed to take money from them,...
- 1/2/2014
- The Guardian - Film News
Berberian Sound Studio director Peter Strickland is now in post on his new feature, The Duke Of Burgundy, and we've got a look at the first poster and still from the film. Borgen's Sidse Babett Knudsen stars with Chiara d'Anna with Ben Wheatley's Rook Films producing. Here's how Strickland and d'Anna described the film when it was first announced:The Duke of Burgundy, a dark melodrama, is set to star Chiara D'Anna (Berberian Sound Studio) as an amateur lepidopterist whose wayward desires test the limits of her lover's tolerance. "After damaging my eardrums with too many screams during the Berberian sound mix, I wanted to make something tender and quiet, but also quite intense. It's a simple love story about a devoted couple whose intimate needs are rarely in harmony" says...
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- 12/24/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Fresh off of a resounding success at the British Independent Film Awards, where his Berberian Sound Studio picked up four prizes including Best Director and Best Actor, writer-director Peter Strickland's third feature has found itself an intriguing home.Rook Films will make Strickland's The Duke Of Burgundy their first non-Ben Wheatley production with the dark drama set to go into production in early 2013.The Duke of Burgundy, a dark melodrama, is set to star Chiara D'Anna (Berberian Sound Studio) as an amateur lepidopterist whose wayward desires test the limits of her lover's tolerance. "After damaging my eardrums with too many screams during the Berberian sound mix, I wanted to make something tender and quiet, but also quite intense. It's a simple love story about a devoted couple whose intimate needs...
- 12/11/2012
- Screen Anarchy
British writer/director Peter Strickland will have the chance to show off his new horror project 'Berberian Sound Studio' next month at Tiff 2012 and in preparation for the screening comes a handful of new stills from the film. Toby Jones ('The Mist') stars as sound engineer Gilderoy whose latest job working on the mix for Italian director Santini becomes his doorway into 'personal mayhem'. The Brit flick co-stars Antonio Mancino, Cosimo Fusco, Susanna Cappellaro, Eugenia Caruso, Chiara D'Anna and the sexy Greek star Tonia Sotiropoulou ('Skyfall'). The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off in just 30 days time but you can head below right now for the new stills....
- 8/7/2012
- Horror Asylum
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