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We at Collider are happy to debut an exclusive clip from writer/director Brian Duffield’s upcoming teen film Spontaneous, which he previously described in our extended interview as a cross between a John Hughes movie and a David Cronenberg movie. Katherine Langford stars as a high school senior named Mara who finds her world thrown into chaos when her fellow students begin inexplicably exploding. As she and her friends struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last, she also sparks up an unexpected romance with a young classmate played by Charlie Plummer. In this …

New Paramount pic Spontaneous, which stars Katherine Langford (Knives Out) and Charlie Plummer (Looking for Alaska), begins with a bang. A big, wet, sloppy, chunky, gooey, meaty bang. You see, a teenage girl explodes in the middle of what would otherwise be just another class in just another day in the fairly routine existence of your average high schooler. But to just spontaneously combust in front of your peers with no warning and no protocol on what to do in the aftermath? Well, that's anything but fairly routine. [caption id="attachment_929650" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Paramount Pictures[/…

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Awesomeness Films has released a trailer for its bloody teen movie Spontaneous, which stars Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) and Charlie Plummer (Looking for Alaska). Brian Duffield wrote, directed and produced this adaptation of Aaron Starmer's YA novel, which stars Langford and Plummer as a couple of high school students whose classmates begin to spontaneously combust, as in, explode, leaving bits of blood, brain and bone all over the place. I know high school can be hard for most people, but this movie takes things to a whole new level. [caption id="attachment_923897" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via …

Written and directed by Jessica Swale, the wartime drama Summerland follows Alice (Gemma Arterton), a reclusive writer with a prickly personality who is content in her solitary life in England during World War II. When she finds herself in a situation where she’s to adopt a frightened young London evacuee named Frank (Lucas Bond), he warms her heart and allows her to re-evaluate painful secrets from her past that free her on her own journey. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, filmmaker Jessica Swale talked about what inspired her to write Summerland, telling a period …