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Director James Ashcroft and puppeteer Paul Lewis take IndieWire inside the demented delivery room for a new film distributed ...
We’re still knee deep into the Raya month, so obviously there will be lots of events and open houses to attend courtesy of ...
T he Rule of Jenny Pen (now streaming on Shudder) offers up the heavyweight main event we didn’t know we wanted: Geoffrey ...
James Ashcroft’s The Rule of Jenny Pen is an unsettling and atmospheric psychological horror film that sinks its claws deep into themes of aging, mortality, a ...
W e’re halfway to October, but this week’s new movies on demand are filled with enough thrills and frights to make you think we were in the middle of a Halloween movie maratho ...
There are no supernatural beasts, no slashers, and no ghosts—just an old man in a nursing home with a doll on his hand doing ungodly things to his neighbors.
John Lithgow as Dave Crealy, Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortensen, and Jenny Pen in James Ashcroft’s "The Rule of Jenny Pen." Traditionally, this horror subgenre — which is also referred to as ...
After Dark: This month, we're programming three of "Jenny Pen" puppeteer Paul Lewis' favorites. A labor of love from filmmaker James Ashcroft, puppeteer Paul Lewis, and star actor John Lithgow ...
The Rule of Jenny Pen begins streaming on Shudder Friday, March 28. The grueling but entertaining psychological thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen introduces one of the strangest movie villains you ...
Care-home thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen has eccentricity motoring it along, certainly to a degree few horror films do.
John Lithgow as Dave Crealy, Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortensen, and Jenny Pen in James Ashcroft’s "The Rule of Jenny Pen." Credit: Courtesy of Matt Henley. An IFC Films and Shudder Release.