Thursday, October 19, 2023

Creepshow : Twenty Minutes with Cassandra/Smile (2023)



Made for Shudder, airing October 13th in the US.
Season 4. Episode 1.
Story 1: Journalist Lorna Snell has just arrived home after a busy work day.
She orders a pizza, pours a glass of wine, has a seat, and tends to her phone.
Then, there is some relentless banging at the front door.
Lorna opens the door to find a frantic woman begging for Lorna to let her inside.
Lorna is hesitant but the woman makes her way inside anyway.
The woman explains that there is a monster outside and in twenty minutes, it will be inside the house and it will kill Lorna.
Of course, Lorna does not believe the woman's story one bit, that is until a delivery man is killed on her front doorstep right before her eyes.
Story 2:  Mr. James Harris is a celebrated photographer.
He has just won the Photo Journalism Association Humanitarian Award for a photo he is not exactly proud of.
After the ceremony, he is greeted by some fans. One asks to take a photo with him, but Mr. Harris will not allow it.
He and his wife proceed to a restaurant for a celebratory dinner.
There, a stranger snaps a photo of the couple without warning and hands it to them.
Mr. Harris is confused because the photo indicates that its photographer was a lot further away from them than he actually was.
Not much more thought is put into that until the couple leaves the restaurant.
They then begin finding more photos of the two of them as if someone is watching them from afar.
That is when Mr. Harris' guilt over the photo that he won the award for really begins to get the better of him.
Stars Samantha Sloyan, Ruth Codd, Frankie Francois, Carey Jones, Nick Heffelfinger, Matthew James Dowden, Lucie Guest, Max Archibald, Roberto Lanzas, Daniel Ian Joeck, Claire Friesen, Aleksandra Cross, Matteo Deuma
Directed by Greg Nicotero & John Harrison
Rated TVMA
ANIMATION/MYSTERY/THRILLER/HORROR/DARK COMEDY/SERIES/TV

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