Last year, Stephen King was among the filmgoers who wound up impressed after watching the harrowing movie Strange Darling. Now, Paramount+ subscribers with the Showtime add-on have a chance to check out the film for themselves on streaming if they missed it in theaters.

As of March 1, . After a premiere at Fantastic Fest in 2023, the film had its wide release in the United States on Aug. 23, 2024. The film drew very high praise from critics, and it holds a score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. Even ahead of its release, King shared how he caught the movie early and thought it was a "really terrific" watch.

"I got an advance screener of Strange Darling, and it's really terrific," King said in an X post after watching the movie early last year. He added that the film is "also a . Can't say more; watch the film and you'll understand what the trailer is up to. I wish I could say more about Strange Darling, but it's one of those films that's , so best to say nothing."

The film was written and directed by JT Mollner. It stars Willa Fitzgerald as a woman who has a one-night stand with a man (Kyle Gallner) that suddenly takes a frightening turn, becoming a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a fight for survival. Barbara Hershey and Ed Begley Jr. also star in the acclaimed film.

"It wasn't hard [to get into character], because the script is so specific, and she is so specific as a character, that understanding who she is, where she came from, and why she's making the choices that she's making, were very easy to kind of flesh in for me as an actor," Fitzgerald previously told CBR in an interview about her role. "Because, obviously, I made my own choices about backstory and history and all those things, and I don't feel the need to share them, because they're not necessarily important to an audience's understanding. But I think that, like the character on the page was so clear, that

On the movie's unique look, Mollner also told CBR, "I think it's weird, when we were shooting the movie – you'd go see certain movies, and they have a very specific, almost kitschy aesthetic that is supposed to be from a certain time. I feel like sometimes there might be filmmakers discussing that as they're shooting. Like, 'Let's make this look like a '60s movie.' And for us, we were just shooting it the way we wanted to shoot it, and we shot, listed it and had a style in mind."

Strange Darling is streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime.

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