Two anticipated blockbusters—Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Half Three—will likely be competing for moviegoers’ consideration this December 18. However every week later, on Christmas Day itself, Werwulf hits theaters, persevering with the festive counterprogramming custom set down by Robert Eggers’ earlier launch, Nosferatu.
As this primary trailer suggests, Eggers’ Thirteenth-century story of a person (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) suffering from a horrible curse continues the director’s love of gloom, grit, and interval element. Werwulf co-stars Willem Dafoe as a seemingly malevolent character, however he’s simply one creepy factor in what seems to be to be a very unnerving viewing expertise.
May Werwulf be Eggers’ most experimental work up to now? There’s actually no person else making mainstream films like this in Hollywood proper now, and contemplating the viral success of Nosferatu, it feels seemingly that Werwulf will discover a comparable area of interest amongst horror followers and the weird-curious, even when it lacks a vampire sporting an opulent mustache.
“Witness Robert Eggers’ most visceral and haunting expertise but,” guarantees the press launch. “Focus Options presents Werwulf, a harrowing story of devotion, damnation, and the satan inside.”
Together with Taylor-Johnson (trying furry and haunted) and Dafoe (sinister as hell), the trailer additionally provides you a take a look at Lily-Rose Depp because the understandably frightened spouse of Taylor-Johnson’s character. All through, there’s unsettling imagery and a deeply grim sense of foreboding. Even the font seems to be prefer it crawled out of a nightmare.
Werwulf hits theaters December 25—can’t wait to see if Focus churns out a novelty popcorn bucket for this one.
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