2022 Fall Film Preview

  • GOODNIGHT MOMMY – September 16, 2022 (Prime Video)
  • PEARL – September 16, 2022 (A24)
  • MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM – September 30, 2022 (Prime Video)
  • PIGGY – October 14, 2022 (Magnet Releasing)
  • SOME LIKE IT RARE – October 14, 2022 (Brainstorm Media)
  • NANNY – In Theaters November 23, 2022, and On Prime Video December 16, 2022 (Prime Video)

GOODNIGHT MOMMY (English Language Remake)

Studio: Prime Video

Release Date: September 16, 2022

Genre: Thriller

Rated: R

Amazon Studios has announced the release date for their upcoming psychological horror film Goodnight Mommy, the English-language remake of the 2014 Austrian film of the same name. The forthcoming horror picture is set to premiere on Prime Video on September 16, 2022.

Synopsis: When twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanour altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother. 

Directed by: Matt Sobel

Written by: Kyle Warren

Produced by: V.J. Guibal, p.g.a., Nicolas Brigaud- Robert, p.g.a., Joshua Astrachan, p.g.a., David Kaplan 

Cast: Naomi Watts, Cameron Crovetti, Nicholas Crovetti, Peter Hermann

PEARL

Studio: A24

Release Date: September 16, 2022

Genre: Horror

Rated: R

Synopsis: Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, in this astonishing follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide in the stunning, technicolour-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain, lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies.

Directed by: Ti West

Written by: Ti West & Mia Goth

Produced by: Jacob Jaffke, Ti West, Kevin Turen, Harrison Kreiss

Cast: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro

MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM

Studio: Prime Video

Release Date: September 30, 2022

Genre: Horror

Rated: R

Synopsis: The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries— and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil? 

Directed by: Damon Thomas

Written by: Jenna Lamia

Based on the book by Grady Hendrix

Produced by: Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jennifer Semler 

Cast: Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller, Cathey Ang, Rachel Ogechi, Christopher Lowell

PIGGY

Studio: Magnet Releasing

Release Date: October 14, 2022

Genre: Horror/Thriller

Rated: N/A

Synopsis: With the summer sun beating down on her rural Spanish town, Sara hides away in her parent’s butcher shop. A teenager whose excess weight makes her the target of incessant bullying, she flees a clique of capricious girls who torment her at the town pool, only to stumble upon them being brutally kidnapped by a stranger, who drives off with them in his van. When the police begin asking questions, Sara keeps quiet. Intrigued by the stranger — an interest that’s mutual — she’s torn between revealing the truth and protecting the man who saved her.

Directed by: Carlota Pereda

Written by: Carlota Pereda

Cast: Laura Galán

SOME LIKE IT RARE

Studio: Brainstorm Media

Release Date: October 14, 2022

Genre: Horror, Comedy

Rated: Film is not rated yet

Synopsis: Butchers Vincent and Sophie’s business is going under and their relationship is on the rocks. But their lives are changed forever when Vincent accidentally kills a vegan activist vandalizing their store. To get rid of the corpse, he butchers the body and Sophie accidentally sells the meat. Never has their product been more successful with their customers to the extent that they just might be tempted to kill again…

Directed by: Fabrice Eboué

Written by: Fabrice Eboué, Vincent Solignac

Produced by: David Gauquié and Julien Deris/Cinéfrance Studios

Cast: Fabrice Éboué, Marina Foïs, Jean-Francois Cayrey, Lisa Do Couto Texeira, Victor Meutelet, Stephane Soo Mongo, Virginie Hocq and Christophe Hondelatte

NANNY

Studio: Prime Video

Release Date: In Theaters November 23, 2022, | On Prime Video December 16, 2022

Genre: Psychological Horror

Rated: N/A

Synopsis: Aisha is an undocumented nanny working for a privileged couple in New York City. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in West Africa, a violent presence invades her reality, threatening the American Dream she is painstakingly piecing together. 

Directed/written by: Nikyatu Jusu

Produced by: Nikkia Moulterie, p.g.a., Daniela Taplin Lundberg, p.g.a.

Cast: Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Rose Decker, Leslie Uggams, Zephani Idoko

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