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Eight Essential Maika Monroe Performances

January 24, 2026 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong on the essential Maika Monroe performances… One of the most promising young actresses working today, the Santa Barbara-born Maika Monroe is often synonymous with the horror genre, thanks in no small part to her breakthrough performance in It Follows. But she isn’t the type who is pigeonholed as a strictly horror movie actress, […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Greta, It Follows, longlegs, maika monroe, Significant Other, The Guest, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Villains, Watcher

The Most Terrifying Movie Psychopaths of the 1990s

May 6, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong takes a trip back to the 1990s to profile ten of the decade’s most terrifying movie psychopaths… Hollywood loves psychopaths in many forms. The character can be insane, obsessive or display any dangerous personality traits that lead to the victim’s death and murder. We have seen them in various genres, covering from horror […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Anthony Hopkins, Cape Fear, Dennis Hopper, fear, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Madsen, Misery, Ray Liotta, Rebecca De Mornay, Reservoir Dogs, Robert De Niro, Se7en, Single White Female, Speed, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Silence of the Lambs, Unlawful Entry

10 Great Forgotten 90s Thrillers Worth Revisiting

October 29, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of essential forgotten 1990s thrillers for your watch list…  The 90s was a veritable treasure trove of thrillers. A decade prior, which saw a more growing fascination in the rising blockbuster, as well as other genre cinema, saw your classic pot boiler thriller pushed slightly to the wayside. Not […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blue Steel, Breakdown, Final Analysis, Pacific Heights, Ricochet, Single White Female, Snake-Eyes, The Ambulance, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, the interview

Trailer for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle remake starring Maika Monroe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead

September 23, 2025 by Amie Cranswick

Hulu has shared the first trailer for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, the upcoming remake of the 1992 psychological thriller from director Michelle Garza Cervera. Maika Monroe stars as Polly Murphy, a woman who is hired as a nanny by the upscale suburban mother Cailtlin (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but the family soon discover Polly […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: maika monroe, Martin Starr, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michelle Garza Cervera, Mileiah Vega, Raul Castillo, Riki Lindhome, Shannon Cochran, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

Mary Elizabeth Winstead joins Maika Monroe in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle remake

October 15, 2024 by Gary Collinson

Last month it was announced that Maika Monroe (Longlegs) will be starring in a remake of the 1992 psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and now comes word that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Birds of Prey) has also joined the cast of the upcoming film. The original film, directed by Curtis Hanson, saw Rebecca […]

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Maika Monroe set for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle remake

September 28, 2024 by Gary Collinson

Fresh off the hit horror Longlegs, actress Maika Monroe has been cast as the lead in 20th Century Studios’ remake of director Curtis Hanson’s 1992 psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. The original film starred Rebecca De Mornay as a woman who suffers a miscarriage when her husband commits suicide after being exposed […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: maika monroe, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

The Films of 1992: A Great Year For Movies

November 1, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ventures back 30 years to 1992, a year full of breakouts, action spectacle, iconic soundtracks and more… In my retrospective delve into the year of 1982, I boldly claimed that it might have been the greatest year of film ever. As I thrust my time machine forward a decade, I wandered the cinematic […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aladdin, Alien 3, Army of Darkness, Basic Instinct, Batman Returns, Blackbelt, Bloodfist III, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Candyman, Death Becomes Her, El Mariachi, Encino Man, Final Impact, Hard Boiled, Honeymoon in Vegas, Illicit Behaviour, Lady Dragon, Last of the Mohicans, Liars Edge, Mission of Justice, Mo Money, My Cousin Vinny, nemesis, Out for Blood, Passenger 57, Rage and Honor, Sexual Response, Single White Female, Sister Act, Sleepwalkers, Split Second, Stay Tuned, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, Supercop, Talons of the Eagle, The Bodyguard, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Lawnmower Man, The Mighty Ducks, The Player, The Swordsman, Trespass, Twin Dragons, Under Siege, Universal Soldier, Wayne's World, White Men Can't Jump

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