Director: Lawrence Fowler
Released in 2024, The Jack in the Box: Rises is a British supernatural horror film directed by Lawrence Fowler. It extends a franchise centered on an antique wooden toy and the demonic figure that emerges from it, this time moving the action into the enclosed setting of a private girls' school.
What is The Jack in the Box: Rises about?
The film unfolds on the grounds of an exclusive boarding school for girls, where an old jack-in-the-box is uncovered and opened. Doing so frees the malevolent entity that has been confined inside the object. As the demon begins to move through the school, a group of six students find themselves cut off from any easy way out and forced to respond. What follows is structured as a survival ordeal, with the young characters trying to work out the rules that govern the creature and to outlast it. The story runs for roughly 92 minutes and stays within the walls of the school and its surrounding grounds, keeping the cast small and the location tightly bounded.
Cast & crew
The cast is led by Nicholas Anscombe and Isabella Colby Browne, with Derek Nelson, Georgia Conlan, James Reynard, Leona Clarke, Georgina Jane and Oli Meredith filling out the ensemble of students and school staff. The performers are drawn largely from British independent film.
Context & significance
The Jack in the Box: Rises belongs to a run of low-budget British horror films built on the same central premise: a cursed jack-in-the-box that releases a demon when it is opened. Lawrence Fowler created and directed the earlier entries as well, and this installment carries the numbering forward while shifting the setting to a school environment. The film was produced in the United Kingdom and released in 2024 with a running time of about 92 minutes. It holds an IMDb user rating of 4.1. As a genre piece it sits within the contained-location horror tradition, in which a fixed setting and a limited cast are used to build tension around a single supernatural threat.
Where & how to watch
The Jack in the Box: Rises is available to stream on K-Time, where the page you are reading is free to open and browse. Watching the film itself requires signing in with a K-Time account. The title is offered with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow it in Farsi, and the wider K-Time experience is built in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora.