James Ashcroft’s unnerving horror film "The Rule of Jenny Pen" makes us wonder what’s scarier: the inescapable clutch of age, ...

Now, he's back with a sophisticated yet elegantly demented follow-up, The Rule of Jenny Pen, a psycho-biddy thriller that ...

A review of 'The Rule of Jenny Pen' with John Lithgow terrorizing fellow resident Geoffrey Rush in a nursing home where elder ...

The Rule Of Jenny Pen's ending is a darkly optimistic one, underlying the surreal horror and unexpected humor to be found in ...

John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush face off in James Ashcroft’s thriller about a man who menaces his fellow elderly residents ...

It takes James Ashcroft’s The Rule Of Jenny Pen just a single scene to establish itself as a nasty, engulfing piece of work.

Established stars Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow dazzle in this deeply disturbing psychological thriller about abuse, agency ...

Ashcroft, who adapted the film with Eli Kent from a short story by Owen Marshall, begins the tale with Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortenson, an imperious judge. He excoriates a young woman connected with ...

Ashcroft crudely shifts between black comedy and disturbing violence, rather than accomplishing the more difficult task of ...

John Lithgow as Dave Crealy, Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortensen, and Jenny Pen in James Ashcroft’s "The Rule of Jenny Pen." Credit: Courtesy of Matt Henley. An IFC Films and Shudder Release.