The Fantastic Pavilion presents a weekly recap with the most relevant news about the world of genre cinema.
News
The official first look at Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated Frankenstein (2025) was published, as part of Vanity Fair’s First Looks article. About the fact that he shot much of Frankenstein in “remnants of once-great structures,” the Mexican filmmaker said to the magazine that “Gothic romance was born partially out of fascination with ruins. Sometimes they’re more beautiful than the building complete because it’s the clash of creation and destruction.”
Del Toro also said, via his Bluesky account, that his version of Frankenstein – which stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi – will have a theatrical run in 2025, before heading to Netflix.
New posters for Nosferatu (2024) were released, to highlight the 35mm, IMAX and Dolby Cinema presentations of the film.
Additionally, director Robert Eggers recorded a video for the Alamo Drafthouse, in which he shares five movies that influenced his vampire picture: Jack Clayton’s The Innocents (1961), Thorold Dickinson’s The Queen of Spades (1949), Archie Mayo’s Svengali (1931), Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop, 1972), and Philip Haas’ Angels and Insects (1995).
Nosferatu opens in U.S. theaters on Christmas Day.
There’s also a new poster for Get Away (2024), the horror comedy written by Nick Frost and directed by Steffen Haars. IFC Films and Shudder will release it in U.S. theaters on December 6.
Eric Ortiz, the Fantastic Pavilion’s editor-in-chief, interviewed last Friday part of the cast of Get Away, including Frost, so we’ll have much more information about this fun and very violent riff on The Wicker Man (1973) and Midsommar (2019) in the coming days.
Variety revealed that a documentary about Terrifier 3 (2024) is coming next year. Art Attack! The Dissection of Terrifier 3 is the title of the doc, which will cover the making of the Christmas-set supernatural slasher through interviews with director Damien Leone and producer Phil Falcone, among others, and “new footage from the set of production.” Art Attack! The Dissection of Terrifier 3 will be available to stream on Screambox sometime in 2025.
Netflix shared the official trailer and poster for the second season of Squid Game (Ojing-eo geim), the South Korean survival thriller that became a cultural phenomenon in 2021. In the trailer we can see the protagonist, known as player 456 (and played by Lee Jung-jae), back in the game to try to put an end to it and give the organizers what they certainly deserve. The new season of Squid Game will be released globally on December 26.
The animated movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) is ready to hit theaters in Mexico (December 5) and the U.S. (December 13). Presented by Peter Jackson himself, the flick is set some 200 years before the events depicted in Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003).
“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim tells the fate of the House of Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan. A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg, a mighty fortress that will later come to be known as Helm’s Deep. Finding herself in an increasingly desperate situation, Héra, the daughter of Helm, must summon the will to lead the resistance against a deadly enemy intent on their total destruction,” indicates the official synopsis.
RLJE Films and Shudder announced the acquisition of Clown in a Cornfield (2025), a slasher thriller based on Adam Cesare’s novel of the same name. The movie, which was directed by Eli Craig, is set for a theatrical release in the U.S. on May 9, 2025. Here’s the synopsis: “Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burned down. As the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning figure emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time. Welcome to Kettle Springs. The real fun starts when Frendo the clown comes out to play.”