2020 has been like a year-long monster mash, leading up to October and a cathartic graveyard
smash. Sure, the world is crazy, but at least we can look forward to that most sacred of
spooky observances: melting into our couches to binge the most horrifying things on Netflix.
Just in time for sweater weather and pumpkin-flavored nouns comes another staple of middle-brow,
suburban culture: true crime documentaries. Specifically, Netflix is set to bring new
episodes of its smash-hit revival of Unsolved Mysteries back to television screens on October
19.
"My hope is that there is somebody that's out there that knows the truth."
There will be six new episodes of the critically acclaimed docuseries exploring real-life tales
of the creepy and macabre. While the subjects of the show's forthcoming investigations have
been kept under wraps, a few hints have been dropped along the way. In July, a Variety
interview with showrunner Terry Dunn Meurer raised the question of if there would be a
ghost episode. Meurer replied:
"Yes. But I'll qualify that and say it's an unusual ghost episode. That's all I'll say.
It's different. A bit different."
Based on Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name and directed by Ben Whetley of The
ABCs of Death, Rebecca stars Lily James as the fresh-faced, optimistic new bride of a
wealthy widower played by one-time Lone Ranger, Armie Hammer. After arriving at her husband's
luxurious mansion, Rebecca is greeted by the housekeeper, Kristin Scott Thomas' Mrs. Danvers,
who makes the newly married young lady very much aware that she doesn't have the goods
necessary to take the place of her previous boss.
"I wonder what she's thinking about you."
This won't be the first time that Rebecca has been adapted for the screen. In 1940,
Alfred Hitchcock directed an ever-so-slightly toned-down version of the story, which was
met with critical acclaim and even won the Oscar for Best Picture. While the remakes
of Hitchcock movies have had a rough track record, this one looks to be a real humdinger.
Netflix explores the horror of the laplands on October 22 with its first original Norwegian
motion picture, Cadaver.
Starring Gitte Witt of The Impossible, Thorbjørn Harr from Vikings, and The 12th Man's Thomas
Gullestad, Cadaver tells the story of a family trying to survive in the wake of a nuclear
disaster. When they're invited to a local hotel and promised a free meal in exchange
for being part of a theatrical production, things take a decidedly upsetting turn. Masks
are worn, folks start to disappear, the line between "performance" and "reality" begins
to blur, and the buttress of rationality splinters as a result. The film represents director
Jarand Herdal's first feature-length movie after making a name for himself with short
films like Clowne, Everywhen, and charmingly, a Harry Potter fan film from 2011.
Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight follows the time-honored tradition of sticking teenagers
in the woods and punishing them for their youthful indiscretions.
Slasher films have been chopping, slicing, and impaling kids for decades on the basis
of premarital relations, an appreciation for the demon weed, oafish thickheadedness, and
so on. But this time around, they'll be bumped off for that most heinous and contemporary
of crimes: being on their phones all the time.
"You just don't get it, do you? I have over 60 apps on that phone."
The movie, produced in Poland and acquired for international distribution by Netflix,
tells the tale of a group of teenagers, sent into the forest to unplug from their devices.
Not long after arriving for their technological detox, however, they begin to suspect that
there may be something sinister lurking in the forest's shadows.
Featuring a bevy of Polish talent, Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight stars Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz,
Wiktoria Gasiewska and Stanislaw Cywka in a dire story of survival that, these days,
everyone can relate to.
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