Busy week on the ReelBlend podcast.

Neon has released the trailer for writer-director Amy Seimetz's new genre film She Dies Tomorrow, which is described as a mix of psychological horror and absurdist comedy. Kate Lyn Sheil stars as Amy, who wakes up one morning convinced that she's going to die tomorrow, prompting her carefully mended life to begin to unravel. As her delusions of certain death become contagious to those around her, Amy and her friends' lives spiral out of control in a tantalizing descent into madness. [caption id="attachment_909499" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Neon[/caption] The supporting cast here is …

The canon of Stephen King adaptations has given lots of great actors the opportunity to swing for the fences through his stories of grief, terror, and trauma. The casts of films like Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, and Carrie earned Oscar attention for playing characters created by the prolific horror author, while films like The Shining and IT (both the mini-series and the recent re-adaptation) featured iconic unhinged performances. That tradition continues with Paramount's new adaptation of Pet Sematary, which stars a knockout cast including Jason Clarke, John Lithgow and Amy Seimetz in the devastating tale of a …

Amy Seimetz has been making her mark on the entertainment industry for quite a while now. The thing is, it still seems as though every single time she pops up at a film festival with an independent gem, that’s the cue to open the floodgates and unleash the think pieces about how she’s “breaking through,” “on the rise,” “the new It Girl,” or however you’d like to phrase it. But the truth of the matter is, she earned those designations long ago and made the most of them. Now it’s about time Seimetz is widely recognized …

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The actress plays Rachel Creed in the remake, a character who went through trauma and tragedy due to the loss of her sister as a child.