The first official trailer for The Rule of Jenny Pen starring legends and Oscar winner and nominee, Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow has hit the internet machines. And there’s a creepy ass hand puppet and what I deduce is Lithgow being a geriatric psycho bully. Yeah, enjoy.
Arrogant Judge Stefan Mortensen (Rush) suffers a near-fatal stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed and confined to a retirement home. Resistant to the staff and distant from his friendly roommate, Mortensen soon clashes with seemingly gentle resident Dave Crealy (Lithgow) who secretly terrorizes the home with a sadistic game called “The Rule of Jenny Pen” while wielding his dementia doll as an instrument of cruelty. What begins as childish torment quickly escalates into far more sinister and disturbing incidents. When Mortensen’s pleas to the staff go unanswered, he takes it upon himself to put an end to Crealy’s reign of terror.
And crazy thing is in the trailer Lithgow definitely out creeps the creepy ass hand puppet. Well done sir.
IFC films will release The Rule of Jenny Pen in theaters on March 7, 2025.