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Penny Dreadful SFX’S high priestess of horror

BEWARE THE HYPE

ntroducing this year’s “scariest movie ever”. It’s called , it’s from director David Bruckner, and it’s a ghost story starring Rebecca Hall as a widow who uncovers disturbing secrets about her husband after his death. Sundance has a record of setting the horror agenda for the year (see: , , and more) and in 2020 apparently it’s all about also listed this as one of the worst films of the whole fest, calling it “boring”, so perhaps manage your expectations accordingly.

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