In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to make sure the call button is plugged in and there are no puppets around as we review the 2025 psychological horror film “The Rule of Jenny Pen”…
In 1992, New Zealand author Owen Marshall released his latest collection of short stories in a volume titled “Tomorrow We Save the Orphans” and tucked in that book of over 20 tales was a story called “The Rule of Jenny Pen,” which centered around an elderly patient at an assistant care facility named Dave Crealy and the cruel way he treated many of the people living right beside him in the home.
Like all of Marshall’s previous work, he received a fair amount of praise and adoration but like so many collections of short stories, nothing much happened from there.
Years later, another of Marshall’s stories caught the attention of director James Ashcroft, who wanted to adapt his twisted road trip titled “Coming Home in the Dark” into a feature film.
That successful collaboration led to Ashcroft digging deeper into Marshall’s bibliography and that’s where he found the inspiration for his latest film.
While the film faithfully adapts the source material, Aschroft, who also co-wrote the script, decided to tell the story from the point of view of another character — Judge Stefan Mortensen, who has just been admitted to a care facility after suffering the after effects of a terrible stroke but he soon realizes that being confined to a wheelchair is the least of the tortures awaiting him once he meets Jenny Pen….
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to make sure the call button is plugged in and there are no puppets around as we review the 2025 psychological horror film “The Rule of Jenny Pen”…
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