10 Thrillers To Prepare You For Edgar Wrights ‘Last Night In Soho’ – Screen Rant

With the recent slew of theatrical movie releases being delayed due to coronavirus, the growing fear from many film fans is that more delays are imminent. One highly anticipated movie that has yet to have its release delayed isLast Night in Sohofrom director Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World).

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Currently set to release September 25th of this year,the movie is expected to be one of the best and mostpopular horror flicks of the year (assuming it sticks to its release date). The first non-comedic horror movie of Wright's illustrious filmmaking career, you'll want to check out these ten tantalizing thrillers to prepare you for your viewing.

The relationship between Wright and filmmaker George Romero is well-documented. Considered the father of the zombie genre, Romero's movies have had a huge influence on Wright, whose 2004horror-comedyShaun of the Dead- a play on Romero'sDawn of the Dead (1978) -inspired Romeroto feature Wright and Simon Pegg as zombies in hismovieLand of the Dead (2005).

Romero's debut movie -Night of the Living Dead -follows a group ofPennsylvanians barricaded in a barn trying to survive a deadly zombie invasion. The micro-budgetproduction that set the standard for the zombie genre is likely one of many 1960s horror influences on Wright's new movie.

Edgar Wright co-wrote his latest moviewith Krysty Wilson-Cairns, whose writing credits include a few shorts, several episodes of Showtime'sPenny Dreadful, and most recently, the Oscar-winning1917 (along with director Sam Mendes), so expectLast Night in Soho to feel similar in pacing to that of the relentlessly tense war drama.

Lauded by critics and audiences alike,1917is a non-stop thrill ride that's heavy on action and light on camera cuts. A marvel from a filmmaking standpoint, watching the movie in a theater is a unique and affecting experience, but watching at home still makes for a well-crafted story.

Last Night in Sohois set to bethe biggest starring vehicle yet for Kiwi actor Thomasin McKenzie. Her recent acting credits includeJojo Rabbit(2019) and Netflix original moviesThe King(2019) andLost Girls(2020), but the closest she's come to truly starring (andlikely her best performance) came withLeave No Trace.

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The story follows a father (Ben Foster) and daughter (McKenzie) whose peaceful lives living in a vast Oregon park are threatened when police discover their existence.It's difficult to qualify the movie as a traditional thriller, but it's heavy on drama and has no shortage of tension-filled moments.

Last Night in Sohowill also star Anya Taylor-Joy, who brings great thriller and horror acting experience thanks to excellent starring performances inThoroughbreds (2017) andThe Witch (2016), but the movie of hers that likely comes closest to the tone expected in Wright's feature isSplit.

Split sees Taylor-Joy play one of three girls kidnapped by a dangerous man (James McAvoy)with 23 distinct personalities. She leads the other girls in an escape attempt before the man's terrifying 24th personality emerges. The movie is sandwiched betweenUnbreakable (2000) andGlass(2019) inM. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable trilogy.

Before seeing Edgar Wright's newest movie, you'll want to refresh yourself with his most recent feature -Baby Driver.His highest-grossing movie by far,Baby Driver is a highly-stylized, fast-paced crime thriller that follows a young, music-loving, and extremely talented getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) who tries to break out of his troubled life of crime.

The movie garnered three Oscar nominations, featuressome great performances from an all-star cast, and has an upbeat and diverse soundtrack that'll have you jamming out for weeks after you've watched.

Wright has been forthcoming with a few details so far about the plot ofLast Night in Soho. According to IMDb, the story follows a young girl who mysteriously gains the ability to enter 1960s London, but as time seems to fall apart around her, she learns not all is as it seems.

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The plot sounds similar in some ways to the fate of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) in Stanley Kubrick'sThe Shining, whomeets ahorrifyingsupernatural fate after being persuaded to try and murder his family by the ghosts of some 1920s English characters haunting the hotel he's tasked withmaintaining.

Wright has also revealed that the main character of his new movie isobsessed with fashion, specifically that of the 1960s era that she has the ability to travel to. The concept of a horror story focusing on a fashion-passionate protagonist is reminiscent ofEyes of Laura Mars, whose main character is the titular fashion photographer (Faye Dunaway).

The story takes a supernatural horror turn when Laura develops the ability to see her friends and colleagues being murdered through the eyes of an at-large killer, as well as herself being stalked.Her visions send her down a terrifying spiral of constantly fearing for the lives of herself and those around her.

ThecinematographerforLast Night in Sohois South Korean cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung, who's known for his collaborations with director Chan-wook Park. With well-known titles like Oldboy (2003) andIt (2017) to his name,Chung hasplenty of horror and thriller movies that demonstratehow his work on Wright's movie may look, but one that Wright has particularly praised isThe Handmaiden.

An erotic psychological thriller currently streaming on Amazon Prime, the story follows the attempt of a con man (Jung-woo Ha) to seduce and marry a Japanese heiress (Min-hee Kim) with the help of a thief who poses as the heiress's handmaiden (Tae-ri Kim).

Edgar Wright has said on record that the British horror-thrillerDon't Look Now is a major influence on his upcoming movie. The story follows Laura and John Baxter (Julie Christie & Donald Sutherland), a married couple who - while grieving the recent death of their young daughter (Sharon Williams) - venture to Italy to help restore a church.

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When Laura meets two sisters (Hilary Mason & Clelia Matania) who claim to be psychicscommunicating with her daughter's spirit, John dismisses them as a hoax, until he sees his daughter in the Venice streets. The movie also had a great influence onThe Sixth Sense (1999).

While Rosemary's Baby(1968) is widely considered to be Roman Polanski's horror masterpiece, it's his Britishpsychological horror that came three years prior -Repulsion- that Wright claims to havebeen a main influence onLast Night in Soho.

The story focuses on Carole (Catherine Deneuve), a young woman suffering from androphobia - a pathological fear of men. When Carole's sister and roommate (Yvonne Furneaux) goes on vacation with her new boyfriend (Ian Hendry), Carole isolates herself in their apartment, where herhorrifying hallucinations mutate her fear into full-blown insanity.

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Max is a movie addict and writer based out of Upstate New York who's worked on sets of several movies, shorts, and TV shows. Before becoming a writer at Screen Rant, he worked in marketing while earning a Film Production MFA. When he's not writing articles, he spends his free time playing ice hockey, honing his archery skills, running social media accounts, writing scripts, and watching movies.

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