Before 'The Rule of Jenny Pen' streams on Shudder and AMC+ March 28, IndieWire After Dark is watching a few of puppeteer Paul ...

Director James Ashcroft and puppeteer Paul Lewis take IndieWire inside the demented delivery room for a new film distributed ...

The Rule Of Jenny Pen's ending is a darkly optimistic one, underlying the surreal horror and unexpected humor to be found in ...

Psycho-biddy horror has a new twist in "The Rule of Jenny Pen," James Ashcroft's terrific follow-up to "Coming Home in the Dark." Review.

T he horror genre has a unique place in the entertainment industry. Some of the best horror movies were made on a minimal ...

John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush face off in James Ashcroft’s thriller about a man who menaces his fellow elderly residents with a hand puppet.

It’s a sad fact that nearly everyone has heard horror stories about the sad state of living in a rest home. However, the new ...

The Rule of Jenny Pen, a squeaky-wheeled nursing home nightmare starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow as elderly ...

Bearing a therapeutic hand puppet he calls "Jenny Pen", its eyes plucked out "for added menace", he creeps into his fellow patients' rooms at night and forces them "to pay obeisance to her in the ...

The Rule of Jenny Pen is one hell of a disturbing horror movie. It’s got a strong script, sharp direction, and powerhouse ...

Care-home thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen has eccentricity motoring it along, certainly to a degree few horror films do.

Part David Lynch, part Muppet, the titular Jenny Pen debuted in theaters on March 7. She’s a Pisces who is laying early claim to the title of 2025’s favorite new horror icon, thanks to the midwives ...