The Rule Of Jenny Pen is a 2024 psychological horror movie about a judge who must stop a psychotic patient using a puppet to spread terror and violence in a mental asylum.
Synopsis: A disgraced former judge, now confined to a mental asylum after a debilitating stroke, becomes ensnared in the sinister web of an unhinged patient. This deranged figure wields a child’s doll, Jenny Pen, as a macabre tool of control, manipulating the fragile minds of the other residents and turning the asylum into a theater of fear. As chaos erupts and a wave of violence engulfs the institution, the judge finds himself caught in a harrowing battle of wills. With the puppet as both weapon and symbol of madness, he must confront his own frailties to stop the escalating carnage. What unfolds is a chilling descent into terror that threatens to shatter not just the asylum, but the remnants of his own fractured sanity.
Directed by: James Ashcroft
Written by: James Ashcroft, Eli Kent, Owen Marshall
Starring: John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, George Henare
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Category: Psychological
Country: New Zealand
Language: English
Main Cast:
- Anapela Polataivao
- Bruce Phillips
- Geoffrey Rush
- George Henare
- Ginette McDonald
- Hannah Lynch
- Hilary Norris
- Holly Shanahan
- Ian Mune
- Irene Wood
- Jane Waddell
- John Lithgow
- Maaka Pohatu
- Nathaniel Lees
- Paolo Rotondo
- Semu Filipo
- Thomas Sainsbury
- Yvette Parsons
Production:
- Light In The Dark Productions
Distribution:
- Rialto Distribution (New Zealand)
- Shudder (US)
Release Date:
- March 20, 2025 (New Zealand)
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