Penny Lane Is Dead

9/1/2026

When you make a movie like this, there are a lot of preconceived notions about it, including popular tropes. This movie upends a lot of those tropes and makes this something quite interesting. By changing how the final girl works and how the main antagonists shifts, it becomes something rather unique and special. It is staged beautifully and acted with conviction. I like this movie a lot. I absolutely recommend it.

9/11/2026

Shudder's latest is a chilling Ozploitation flick that has echoes of Peckinpah's **STRAW DOGS** -- with one hell of a depraved twist. **PENNY LANE IS DEAD**, from makeup artist turned writer-director Mia Kate Russell, takes us to the sweltering summer of 1986, where a group of friends has gathered at a family-owned beach cabin to celebrate Penny Lane's (Bailey Spalding) acceptance into university. But the sudden arrival of Penny's estranged cousin Kat (Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn) turns the sapphic gathering into a complete nightmare for the girls -- one that will test audiences' limits... Things become exponentially more unhinged when Kat's psychotic boyfriend Angus (Ben O'Toole) and his droog friends show up with a trunk full of drugs. As the full picture of horror comes into fo