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'Yellowjackets' Sophie Thatcher Calls Her New Horror "Completely Different" From Anything She's Done Before Tamera Jones
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Collider was thrilled to partner with You Know Films’ Alex Noyer for his digital horror series, The Séance, at the Fantastic Pavilion, the hottest spot for genre at the prestigious gathering. While there, Noyer hosted the team behind Neon’s summer horror Her Private Hell, the first feature from co-writer and director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon) in a decade.
21 May 2026 at 12:11

'Yellowjackets' Sophie Thatcher Calls Her New Horror "Completely Different" From Anything She's Done Before

21 May 2026 at 12:11

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Collider was thrilled to partner with You Know Films’ Alex Noyer for his digital horror series, The Séance, at the Fantastic Pavilion, the hottest spot for genre at the prestigious gathering. While there, Noyer hosted the team behind Neon’s summer horror Her Private Hell, the first feature from co-writer and director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon) in a decade.

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‘Her Private Hell’ Review: Nicolas Winding Refn Gets Lost in His Own Private Filmmaking Hell with This David Lynch-on-Bad-Acid Disaster Owen Gleiberman
"Her Private Hell" takes up where "The Neon Demon" left off — or maybe I should say where "Twin Peaks: The Return" left off, since the new movie plays like a knockoff of David Lynch at his most bafflingly obscure crossed with the hellscape fetishism of Gaspar Noé crossed with the world’s most avant-garde perfume commercial (which makes sense, since directing avant-garde perfume commercials is how part of Refn earns his living).
20 May 2026 at 00:10

‘Her Private Hell’ Review: Nicolas Winding Refn Gets Lost in His Own Private Filmmaking Hell with This David Lynch-on-Bad-Acid Disaster

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By: Owen Gleiberman

20 May 2026 at 00:10

"Her Private Hell" takes up where "The Neon Demon" left off — or maybe I should say where "Twin Peaks: The Return" left off, since the new movie plays like a knockoff of David Lynch at his most bafflingly obscure crossed with the hellscape fetishism of Gaspar Noé crossed with the world’s most avant-garde perfume commercial (which makes sense, since directing avant-garde perfume commercials is how part of Refn earns his living).

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‘Her Private Hell’ Review: Pino Donaggio’s Score Is The Secret Sauce In Nicolas Winding Refn’s Trippy Return To Cinema – Cannes Film Festival Damon Wise
Memories of cinema past and present come rushing at you like 2001’s Star Gate sequence in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, his first return to cinema since 2016’s Neon Demon and his first project since dying for 20 minutes from a serious heart condition three years ago. Somehow, it was excluded from the Cannes […]
19 May 2026 at 03:00

‘Her Private Hell’ Review: Pino Donaggio’s Score Is The Secret Sauce In Nicolas Winding Refn’s Trippy Return To Cinema – Cannes Film Festival

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By: Damon Wise

19 May 2026 at 03:00

Memories of cinema past and present come rushing at you like 2001’s Star Gate sequence in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, his first return to cinema since 2016’s Neon Demon and his first project since dying for 20 minutes from a serious heart condition three years ago. Somehow, it was excluded from the Cannes […]

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Shirtless Charles Melton, Brutal Murders and Daddy Issues: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Slays Cannes Crowd With 7-Minute Ovation Zack Sharf
Nicolas Winding Refn returned to Cannes with “Her Private Hell” and continued his festival hot streak of dividing audiences. The provocateur’s latest feature is headlined by “Yellowjackets” and “Companion” star Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, the “Riverdale” actor who redefined his career at Cannes when Todd Haynes’ “May December” premiered in 2023. The late-night screening […]
18 May 2026 at 22:45

Shirtless Charles Melton, Brutal Murders and Daddy Issues: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Slays Cannes Crowd With 7-Minute Ovation

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By: Zack Sharf

18 May 2026 at 22:45

Nicolas Winding Refn returned to Cannes with “Her Private Hell” and continued his festival hot streak of dividing audiences. The provocateur’s latest feature is headlined by “Yellowjackets” and “Companion” star Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, the “Riverdale” actor who redefined his career at Cannes when Todd Haynes’ “May December” premiered in 2023. The late-night screening […]

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Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Heats Up Cannes With 12-Minute Standing Ovation Anthonypauldalessandro
Monday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is playing out of competition, it spiced up the Grand Theatre Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night after Fjord. Those are the longest plaudits of the festival, though Refn […]
18 May 2026 at 22:44

Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Heats Up Cannes With 12-Minute Standing Ovation

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By: Anthonypauldalessandro

18 May 2026 at 22:44

Monday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is playing out of competition, it spiced up the Grand Theatre Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night after Fjord. Those are the longest plaudits of the festival, though Refn […]

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Nicolas Winding Refn On Making ‘Her Private Hell’ After A Brush With Death: “I Had To Start All Over Again” Dmorgan1201
Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell, his first film in 10 years, his last being the Elle Fanning starrer Neon Demon. In the fashionista aspect of it all, you could say Her Private Hell is its spiritual cousin. The film begins at a swanky hotel in a futuristic LA-like city where […]
18 May 2026 at 07:15

Nicolas Winding Refn On Making ‘Her Private Hell’ After A Brush With Death: “I Had To Start All Over Again”

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By: Dmorgan1201

18 May 2026 at 07:15

Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell, his first film in 10 years, his last being the Elle Fanning starrer Neon Demon. In the fashionista aspect of it all, you could say Her Private Hell is its spiritual cousin. The film begins at a swanky hotel in a futuristic LA-like city where […]

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Nicolas Winding Refn Honored at Cannes Ahead of His First Film in Nearly a Decade Rohan Naahar
At the ongoing 79th Cannes Film Festival's Marché du Film, a legend was honored on Sunday for his work in genre cinema. The filmmaker returned to the festival, where he won the Best Director award 15 years ago, with his first feature in a decade. The movie will have its premiere in the festival's out-of-competition section on May 18. The honor was presented to him by the Fantastic Pavilion, and Collider is excited to partner with them and Alex Noyer's digital horror series, The Séance, to bring
17 May 2026 at 16:58

Nicolas Winding Refn Honored at Cannes Ahead of His First Film in Nearly a Decade

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By: Rohan Naahar

17 May 2026 at 16:58

At the ongoing 79th Cannes Film Festival's Marché du Film, a legend was honored on Sunday for his work in genre cinema. The filmmaker returned to the festival, where he won the Best Director award 15 years ago, with his first feature in a decade. The movie will have its premiere in the festival's out-of-competition section on May 18. The honor was presented to him by the Fantastic Pavilion, and Collider is excited to partner with them and Alex Noyer's digital horror series, The Séance, to bring you news and interviews from the world of genre cinema. Noyer serves as both showrunner and host of The Séance, and launched the Fantastic Pavilion in 2023 with Pablo Guisa Koestinger.

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