Penny Dreadful

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lumhouse Productions is great, but it’s been around for more than a decade and released bin-loads of horror films, and to date none has been directed by a woman. Disgraceful. But that’s about to be rectified. A remake of , is coming down the chimney, and it’s headed up by Sophia Takal, who made award-winning chiller about female friendship . The first trailer has and in the ’60s to the template-setters of and the titillating in the ’70s and ’80s, to the meta-movie mutation of in the ’90s, stalk-and-slash has endured because it can change. So a new take, that upends traditions, from a female director with credentials? Deck the halls!