The following contains spoilers for The Rule of Jenny Pen, now playing in theatersThe Rule of Jenny Pen's ending is a bleakly optimistic one that highlights how fighting back against a bully can ...

Directed by James Ashcroft, a New Zealand actor with an impressive directing roster, The Rule of Jenny Pen is already poised to be the most disturbing horror thriller of the year. Based on the ...

Director James Ashcroft and puppeteer Paul Lewis take IndieWire inside their movie's maternity ward. The centerpiece to a toxic tug-of-war — starring Geoffrey Rush as an elderly man terrorized ...

John Lithgow as Dave Crealy, Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortensen, and Jenny Pen in James Ashcroft’s "The Rule of Jenny Pen." Traditionally, this horror subgenre — which is also referred to as ...

The Rule of Jenny Pen is a deliciously twisted psychological horror which boasts an instantly appealing battle of wits ...

That was nothing compared to the behavior Lithgow exhibits as asylum inmate Dave Crealy in "The Rule of Jenny Pen," now in theaters, where the weapon of choice is a bald hand puppet with glowing ...

There's a terrifying new doll on the horror scene, and her name is Jenny Pen. But Crealy finds resistance in one of the home's newest residents, the arrogant Judge Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rush).

Those audiences will be the least prepared for “The Rule of Jenny Pen” and may feel its singular wrath stronger than most. That’s an enviable position to be in for one of recent memory’s ...

Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush (“Shine”) chatted about his new psychological thriller “The Rule of Jenny Pen,” which was directed by James Ashcroft. Geoffrey Rush in 'The Rule of Jenny ...

is rare. But in director James Ashcroft‘s creepy nursing home drama The Rule of Jenny Pen they get one and go for it with no brakes applied. It is deliriously delicious to watch, if sometimes ...

Among the biggest titles this week are Bring Them Down, a revenge story starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott as rival shepherds in rural Ireland and The Rule of Jenny Pen, a psychological ...

John Lithgow as Dave Crealy, Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortensen, and Jenny Pen in James Ashcroft’s "The Rule of Jenny Pen." Credit: Courtesy of Matt Henley. An IFC Films and Shudder Release.