Geoffrey Rush, John Lithgow, and a creepy puppet in an entertaining, disturbing battle for control of a nursing home.

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 ...

Now, he's back with a sophisticated yet elegantly demented follow-up, The Rule of Jenny Pen, a psycho-biddy thriller that pits heralded actors John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush against each other in a ...

James Ashcroft’s unnerving horror film "The Rule of Jenny Pen" makes us wonder what’s scarier: the inescapable clutch of age, or Lithgow ...

Many actors have launched their careers in horror movies. But two of our most acclaimed stars are now headlining a low-budget ...

Ashcroft, who adapted the film with Eli Kent from a short story by Owen Marshall, begins the tale with Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortenson, an imperious judge. He excoriates a young woman connected with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: IFC Films and Shudder It takes James Ashcroft’s The Rule Of Jenny Pen just a single scene to establish itself as a nasty, engulfing piece of work. Sitting at the bench at the front of a ...