Geoffrey Rush is at the Taormina Film Festival to receive a Taormina Excellence Award as well as present his new thriller ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This certainly seems to be the case at the Royal Pine Mews Care Home, the fictional New Zealand setting for much of “The Rule of Jenny Pen,” a new film from the director James Ashcroft.

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).

Compared to Dave, the judge is a purring kitten. The Rule Of Jenny Pen is a phenomenal exercise in character development, but that’s just one of the incredible tools that is utilized in crafting ...

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.