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  • Magic follows a ventriloquist who flees a television opportunity with his dummy in tow

    Corky’s retreat from professional scrutiny places Fats inside a reunion with an old love.

    Corky leaves the city when a television opportunity brings a requirement he fears: a physical examination. In Magic, his agent has arranged a possible move from nightclub ventriloquism to national television, but Corky retreats to a Catskills resort instead. Distributor Dark Sky Films’ official synopsis.

    Fats, the dummy central to his act, goes with him. The change of location therefore does not separate Corky from his performing partner. It carries that relationship into a setting connected with his earlier life. Distributor Dark Sky Films’ official synopsis.

    The resort is run by Peggy Ann Snow, someone Corky loved when he was younger. Their reunion opens the possibility of leaving together, and Corky tells Fats he may abandon show business. The premise brings a professional partnership and a renewed personal relationship into the same space. Distributor Dark Sky Films’ official synopsis.

    Anthony Hopkins plays Corky, Ann-Margret plays Peggy, and Burgess Meredith plays agent Ben Greene. Richard Attenborough directed the 1978 film. Its distributor and the BFI list a 107-minute running time. Those credits locate the story in a specific film rather than treating the dummy as an interchangeable example of a horror prop. Distributor Dark Sky Films’ official synopsis. BFI’s film and cast record.

  • Texas Chain Saw Day takes its date from the film’s fictional trip through Texas

    Texas Chain Saw Day takes its date from the film’s fictional trip through Texas

    The August screening date follows the story’s calendar rather than the year of the film’s original release.

    August 18 belongs to the events inside The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Fathom’s account sets its five young travelers’ Texas outing on August 18, 1973, making the date a connection to the fictional journey rather than the film’s 1974 release year. Fathom’s official story description and 2026 event record.

    A masked figure raises a chainsaw against an orange sky beside an open field.
    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment’s official Texas Chain Saw Day media kit. Image source.

    The countryside trip brings the group into contact with a family that preys on them. Tobe Hooper’s film places its masked butcher within that household, so the threat encompasses both a pursuing figure and the domestic setting around him.

    The official stills accompanying the anniversary campaign show those two scales: a figure carrying a chainsaw outdoors and a family assembled around a table indoors. The house’s dining objects and bone decorations make the room itself part of the film’s visual setting.

    Four figures sit at a dining table decorated with bones, dishes, and a skull-shaped lamp.
    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment’s official Texas Chain Saw Day media kit. Image source.

    The 2026 Texas Chain Saw Day screening used August 18 again. A separate date belongs to its preservation history: the Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry in 2024. That record concerns the released film’s place in the archive, distinct from the year and day of its fictional events. Fathom’s official story description and 2026 event record. Library of Congress record of the film’s 2024 registry selection.

    A woman with blood on her face screams in a close-up from the fictional film.
    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment’s official Texas Chain Saw Day media kit. Image source.
  • Terminator 2’s thirty-fifth-anniversary presentations use its 2017 restoration and 3D conversion

    Terminator 2’s thirty-fifth-anniversary presentations use its 2017 restoration and 3D conversion

    The 2026 theatrical campaign draws on an earlier restoration rather than identifying a new one made for the anniversary.

    The image work behind Terminator 2: Judgment Day’s thirty-fifth-anniversary release predates the anniversary. The joint distributor release identifies STUDIOCANAL’s 2017 restoration and 3D conversion as the basis for its 2026 presentations. Joint distributor release specifying the restoration and presentation formats.

    A reflective metallic humanoid face appears beside a coiled radio cord in blue light.
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment / STUDIOCANAL / Rialto Pictures anniversary media kit. Image source.

    The campaign lists 4K, RealD 3D, and premium formats. Those labels describe ways of presenting the returning film; the release does not identify a newly completed 2026 restoration. Its United States run was scheduled from August 28 through September 2.

    The film’s competing machines give the restoration a story built around protection and pursuit. Rialto’s synopsis describes one cyborg sent into the past to protect Sarah Connor and her son John from the advanced T-1000, amid an attempt to prevent a future war involving SkyNet. Rialto Pictures’ official film synopsis and production credits.

    A leather-clad cyborg aims a firearm while sitting behind a boy on a motorcycle in a concrete channel.
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment / STUDIOCANAL / Rialto Pictures anniversary media kit. Image source.

    James Cameron directs and shares the screenplay credit with William Wisher. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, and Robert Patrick lead the cast. Rialto lists the 1991 film at 137 minutes, with cinematography by Adam Greenberg and music by Brad Fiedel. Joint distributor release specifying the restoration and presentation formats. Rialto Pictures’ official film synopsis and production credits.

    A leather-clad cyborg in sunglasses points a firearm inside a brightly lit room.
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment / STUDIOCANAL / Rialto Pictures anniversary media kit. Image source.
  • V for Vendetta’s anniversary trailer returns to the 1812 Overture with a new arrangement

    V for Vendetta’s anniversary trailer returns to the 1812 Overture with a new arrangement

    Jonathan Snipes of clipping. reworked the piece for the film’s 2026 theatrical campaign.

    The music accompanying V for Vendetta’s twentieth-anniversary trailer revisits a piece associated with the film. Fathom credits Jonathan Snipes, a member of clipping., with a new version of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture for the 2026 campaign. Fathom’s official description of the anniversary trailer’s music.

    That credit concerns the anniversary trailer. It identifies a new piece of promotional audio built around an existing musical connection, rather than a replacement score for the feature itself.

    A masked figure in a black hat stands in shadow beside a wall carrying the words Strength through unity.
    V for Vendetta. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment / Warner Bros. anniversary media kit. Image source.

    The film places Evey, played by Natalie Portman, in a Britain governed by a totalitarian state. After the masked V rescues her from the secret police, she becomes involved in his campaign against the regime. Hugo Weaving plays V, with James McTeigue directing. Official film premise and graphic-novel credits.

    A crowd wears matching pale smiling masks and black hats at night.
    V for Vendetta. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment / Warner Bros. anniversary media kit. Image source.

    Its source is the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd, published through DC’s Vertigo imprint. The 2026 theatrical program is scheduled for November 1 and 5. The reworked overture belongs to the campaign surrounding those screenings, connecting the returning film to a newly produced trailer. Fathom’s official description of the anniversary trailer’s music. Official film premise and graphic-novel credits.

  • Donnie Darko gives its ordinary school days an extraordinary countdown

    Donnie Darko gives its ordinary school days an extraordinary countdown

    Frank’s prediction places a precise limit around the teenager’s encounters at home and school.

    Donnie Darko’s approaching disaster has a timer. Arrow’s synopsis describes Frank, the rabbit-shaped figure Donnie sees, predicting the end of the world in twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, and twelve seconds. The precision places a deadline around events whose meaning remains uncertain. Arrow Video’s official synopsis and restoration specifications.

    An October calendar has large crosses marking the days through the twenty-second.
    Donnie Darko. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment’s official 25th-anniversary media kit. Image source.

    Donnie is still a high-school student with family, teachers, and classmates around him. Fathom’s description also identifies Gretchen as a connection within that everyday world. A jet engine crashing into his bedroom brings an external catastrophe into the domestic setting, narrowly missing him. Fathom’s anniversary release description.

    The long-eared rabbit figure Frank stands in a dim interior with a bright flare across one eye.
    Donnie Darko. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment’s official 25th-anniversary media kit. Image source.

    The premise puts familiar obligations beside an account of reality that Donnie cannot simply share with everyone else. Frank’s instructions and the predicted ending accompany his attempts to move through school and relationships.

    Several people look down at a floor marked with the words They made me do it.
    Donnie Darko. Film still supplied through Fathom Entertainment’s official 25th-anniversary media kit. Image source.

    Richard Kelly’s 2001 film has also circulated in two cuts. Arrow’s UHD edition contains separate restorations of the theatrical and director’s versions, made from original camera negatives and supervised by Kelly and cinematographer Steven Poster. Fathom’s 2026 anniversary presentation returned the film to cinemas in 4K. Arrow Video’s official synopsis and restoration specifications. Fathom’s anniversary release description.

  • Rise of the Rats ties its creature threat to a daughter’s questions about her father

    Kayla’s visit to an English village becomes an investigation into a crime connected to its past.

    Kayla’s estranged father is her connection to Ditchfield in Rise of the Rats. Black Mandala’s synopsis follows the young punk into the English village, where a creature called Rat-Man and its swarms make that family connection part of a survival problem. Black Mandala’s official film synopsis and credits.

    The threat is linked to a past crime. Kayla must establish how her father is involved while the attacks spread. Her investigation therefore concerns the person who brought her to the village as well as the village itself.

    Producer Equalize Entertainment describes the film as drawing on 1980s horror and B-movie traditions. That is the production’s stated approach, rather than a judgment about the finished film. Its creature premise combines a named antagonist with the larger rat infestation surrounding the inhabitants. Equalize Entertainment’s production description.

    Stephen Roach directs, with Grace Gallagher, Mark Collier, and Tania Staite listed in Black Mandala’s cast information. Equalize identifies the project as a forthcoming 2026 title. The cited company pages do not provide a specific public release day. Black Mandala’s official film synopsis and credits. Equalize Entertainment’s production description.

  • Babybacks traps its fleeing couple between the people pursuing them and the people offering shelter

    Geno Marx’s survival film moves its characters from an exposed desert crossing into a deceptive household.

    Accepting shelter changes the source of danger in Babybacks. Zoe and Mateo are fleeing cartel hitmen when an older couple offers them refuge. Black Mandala’s description makes the home another place of confinement, with the apparent rescuers becoming predators themselves. Black Mandala’s official film synopsis and cast listing.

    The young couple’s journey crosses the Sonoran Desert. Moving indoors initially appears to answer the immediate need for safety. The premise then makes dependence on strangers part of Zoe’s struggle to survive, rather than the end of the escape.

    In his written project statement, director Geno Marx connects the story to exploitation of people seeking refuge. He places Zoe’s effort to protect her unborn child at the center of the struggle, giving the survival story a further family relationship beyond the fleeing couple. Filmmaker-supplied project record, credits, and director’s statement.

    Viridiana Márquez plays Zoe and Ryan Rathbun plays Mateo. Melissa Chambers and Peter Lucas play the older couple, Carol and Wayne, according to the filmmaker’s project record. Marx directs and shares the screenplay credit with Kent Rodricks. The film’s listed running time is 94 minutes. Black Mandala’s official film synopsis and cast listing. Filmmaker-supplied project record, credits, and director’s statement.

  • The 100 Candles Game: Dark Mirror turns storytelling into the cause of its central haunting

    Three friends’ effort to contact a missing companion supplies the frame for the anthology.

    The stories in The 100 Candles Game: Dark Mirror have consequences for the people telling them. Black Mandala’s synopsis links each tale and extinguished candle to a weakening boundary between the living and the dead. Storytelling is an action within the plot as well as the anthology’s organizing device. Black Mandala’s official synopsis and filmmaker credits.

    Three friends gather in an abandoned house to contact Mary, a missing member of their circle. Their reason for beginning the game is therefore specific: they are searching for a person they remember. An old mirror becomes the opening through which another presence may approach.

    That frame links the individual tales to a shared location and an escalating problem. The gathering continues while the barrier changes, making the room around the storytellers part of the danger.

    Black Mandala credits an ensemble of directors including Charly Goitia, Luciano Onetti, Emma Bell, Carlos Baena, and Rosaicela Enríquez Santillán. Macarena Suárez, Daniela Flombaum, and Valentín Fernández appear in its principal cast listing. Black Mandala’s official synopsis and filmmaker credits.

  • Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas puts a failed ideal into its deliberately imperfect title

    Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas puts a failed ideal into its deliberately imperfect title

    Next Chapter Entertainment changed the film’s name during post-production to reflect Ralph’s plans going wrong.

    The spelling of Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas is connected to its protagonist’s inability to arrange the holiday he wants. Next Chapter Entertainment says the film became Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas during post-production, replacing the earlier name Mr. Christmas because Ralph’s plans fail to unfold as intended. Next Chapter Entertainment’s explanation of the title change.

    An early Mr. Christmas poster shows Tom McLaren in a Santa coat beside a decorated tree, with the former title and a 2024 release line.
    Early Mr. Christmas campaign art supplied by Next Chapter Entertainment in December 2023. The film was subsequently retitled Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas; the printed 2024 date reflects that earlier campaign, not its current release information. Image source.

    The original production description identifies Tom McLaren’s Ralph as a man trying to bring his estranged family back together. A favorite holiday movie inspires his scheme. The desire for reunion provides the starting point for a plan that moves into darker territory. Producer-issued production release under the original title.

    The title change shifts the emphasis from a nickname to an ambition. Mr. Christmas identifies how Ralph sees himself; the later name identifies the celebration he is attempting to create, with its misspelling anticipating the mismatch between intention and outcome.

    The 2023 production release credited Matt Bellamy as director and Jeremy Padow as screenwriter. Charlie Schlatter and Jill Schoelen are among McLaren’s castmates. Cineverse lists the film’s Screambox arrival for November 3, 2026; the earlier campaign material pictured here belongs to the production’s original title and release plans. Producer-issued production release under the original title. Cineverse’s November release information.

    A publicity sheet arranges twelve labeled cast portraits in a grid, including Tom McLaren, Charlie Schlatter, and Jill Schoelen.
    Cast publicity sheet supplied by Next Chapter Entertainment for the film’s original Mr. Christmas campaign. Image source.

  • Dead Giveaway gives its central pair a body to explain and a night they cannot reconstruct

    Jill’s incomplete memory drives a mystery that expands as more people enter the house.

    Jill starts Dead Giveaway with evidence of something she cannot explain: a dead man in her bed and blood on her clothes. Her memory of the previous night does not supply the missing account. The situation turns her own bedroom into a place she must investigate. Official digital release listing and studio-supplied synopsis.

    The studio’s digital synopsis describes her calling her friend Lia while roommate Sarah leaves for the gym. That creates a temporary opening for the pair to work out what has happened. Each new arrival then adds information, questions, or another person from whom they try to conceal the situation.

    Ruby Modine plays Jill and Mikaela Hoover plays Lia. Their characters’ decision to avoid the police produces further complications within the fictional plot. The ordinary household routine continues around them while they struggle with an extraordinary discovery.

    Ian Kimble directs the 87-minute horror comedy, whose cast also includes Suzann Toni Petrongolo and Scout Taylor-Compton. Cineverse lists November 3, 2026 for its digital release. Official digital release listing and studio-supplied synopsis. Cineverse’s digital release information.