{"id":93469,"date":"2016-12-08T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T11:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=93469"},"modified":"2016-12-08T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T11:12:35","slug":"xx-new-pictures-from-all-female-directed-anthology-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/xx-new-pictures-from-all-female-directed-anthology-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"XX new pictures from all female-directed anthology horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re very, very excited about upcoming horror anthology XX<\/em><\/strong> and a few new pictures have been released following the announcement that it will be playing at the Sundance Film Festival, before getting a US release on 17 February, from Bloody Disgusting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

XX<\/em><\/strong> features an all-female director roster, and it’s a pretty fantastic one. There’s Karyn Kusama (The Invitation<\/em><\/strong>, Jennifer’s Body<\/em><\/strong>), Roxanne Benjamin (Southbound<\/em><\/strong>), Jovanka Vuckovic (The Caged Bird<\/em><\/strong>), and the awesome Annie Clarke, better known as St Vincent.<\/p>\n

There’s not much by way of plot details, but Bloody Disgusting also reports that Vuckovic’s segment will be based on Jack Ketchum’s fantastic short story The Box<\/em><\/strong> (not to be confused with Richard Matheson’s short story The Box<\/em><\/strong>, which was turned into a film by Richard Kelly).<\/p>\n

The film stars the brilliant Melanie Lynskey, Natalie Brown, Mike Doyle, Christina Kirk, Kyle Allen, Peyton Kennedy, Peter DaCunha, Ron Lea, Jonathan Watton, Lisa Renee Pitts, and Morgan Peter Brown.<\/p>\n

We don’t yet know when XX<\/em><\/strong> will hit the UK, but we’ve got our fingers crossed for a prompt release following the US date.<\/p>\n

We’ve had a flood of anthology horror films in the last few years, but that flood does now seem to have died down into a still-fairly-serious river. The V\/H\/S<\/em><\/strong> and The ABCs Of Death<\/em><\/strong> series don’t seem to be moving, but films like Southbound<\/em><\/strong> showed that there’s still life in the format with some genuinely creepy weirdness and some great gory shocks. On the other hand, films like Holidays<\/em><\/strong> are more of a mixed bag, with a couple of brilliant segments carrying an\u00a0unsatisfying whole.<\/p>\n

However, the talent assembled for XX<\/em><\/strong> is really exciting and we can’t wait to see what these filmmakers have put together.<\/p>\n

You can read our interview with Benjamin about working on Southbound<\/em><\/strong>, making female-driven horror and loving anthologies here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get hyped for XX from Roxanne Benjamin, St Vincent, Karyn Kusama and Jovanka Vuckovic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":93476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[797,3491],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/xx-still-4_31264054271_o-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}