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 is Last Night in Soho from director Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World).
Currently set to release September 25th of this year, the movie is expected to be one of the best and most popular 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.
10 Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
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 2004 horror-comedy Shaun of the Dead - a play on Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978) - inspired Romero to feature Wright and Simon Pegg as zombies in his movie Land of the Dead (2005).
Romero's debut movie - Night of the Living Dead - follows a group of Pennsylvanians barricaded in a barn trying to survive a deadly zombie invasion. The micro-budget production that set the standard for the zombie genre is likely one of many 1960s horror influences on Wright's new movie.
9 1917 (2019)
Edgar Wright co-wrote his latest movie with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, whose writing credits include a few shorts, several episodes of Showtime's Penny Dreadful, and most recently, the Oscar-winning 1917 (along with director Sam Mendes), so expect Last Night in Soho to feel similar in pacing to that of the relentlessly tense war drama.
Lauded by critics and audiences alike, 1917 is 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.
8 Leave No Trace (2018)
Last Night in Soho is set to be the biggest starring vehicle yet for Kiwi actor Thomasin McKenzie. Her recent acting credits include Jojo Rabbit (2019) and Netflix original movies The King (2019) and Lost Girls (2020), but the closest she's come to truly starring (and likely her best performance) came with Leave No Trace.
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.
7 Split (2017)
Last Night in Soho will also star Anya Taylor-Joy, who brings great thriller and horror acting experience thanks to excellent starring performances in Thoroughbreds (2017) and The Witch (2016), but the movie of hers that likely comes closest to the tone expected in Wright's feature is Split.
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 between Unbreakable (2000) and Glass (2019) in M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable trilogy.
6 Baby Driver (2017)
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, features some 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.
5 The Shining (1980)
Wright has been forthcoming with a few details so far about the plot of Last 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.
The plot sounds similar in some ways to the fate of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, who meets a horrifying supernatural fate after being persuaded to try and murder his family by the ghosts of some 1920s English characters haunting the hotel he's tasked with maintaining.
4 Eyes Of Laura Mars (1978)
Wright has also revealed that the main character of his new movie is obsessed 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 of Eyes 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.
3 The Handmaiden (2016)
The cinematographer for Last Night in Soho is South Korean cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung, who's known for his collaborations with director Chan-wook Park. With well-known titles like Oldboy (2003) and It (2017) to his name, Chung has plenty of horror and thriller movies that demonstrate how his work on Wright's movie may look, but one that Wright has particularly praised is The 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).
2 Don't Look Now (1974)
Edgar Wright has said on record that the British horror-thriller Don'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.
When Laura meets two sisters (Hilary Mason & Clelia Matania) who claim to be psychics communicating 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 on The Sixth Sense (1999).
1 Repulsion (1965)
While Rosemary's Baby (1968) is widely considered to be Roman Polanski's horror masterpiece, it's his British psychological horror that came three years prior - Repulsion - that Wright claims to have been a main influence on Last 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 her horrifying hallucinations mutate her fear into full-blown insanity.
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