Category Archives: thriller

“Underwater” Terrifying and Horrific Trailer, Clips, Poster

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Kristen Stewart is trapped 7 miles below the surface.

Directed by William Eubank, the studios promote Underwater as being about “a crew of underwater researchers must scramble to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory.”

Now, that is far from what is in the movie trailer. The poster says, “…something has awakened.” Horror best describes this movie starring Kristen Stewart, T.J. Miller, Vincent Cassel, John Gallagher Jr., Jessica Henwick, Mamoudou Athie, and Gunner Wright.

The movie is available on Blu-ray, DVD, or streaming.

Eubank started his film career as a second unit director and cinematographer. Now, he is a director, including the movies The Signal and Love, which won an award for Athens International Film Festival Best Director as well as Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA sound editing – direct to video.

Gunner Wright starred in Love about an astronaut in continuous orbit around Earth, out of communication with Houston, doing maintenance, reading old messages, and reading a journal from Civil War veteran.

Stewart looks good in the trailer donning a bra and short blonde hair. She is the focus of the story. A story that is not delineated by the studios yet. It looks terrifying and was shot well by Eubank.

The following clips show they are in deep trouble, and there is no safe way out of the situation.

“Luce” Trailer and Poster

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My interest in this movie started when I first saw the trailer on Facebook. I watched it muted because I didn’t want to be rude, playing the sound in public.

I saw a movie that I wanted to see.

The situation in the story is interesting because we appear to see a perfect student named Luce, played by Kelvin Harrison Jr. His teacher, Harriet Wilson, played by Octavia Spencer, suspects him to be violent.

Julius Onah co-wrote and directed Luce, a smart psychological thriller adapted from JC Lee’s play of the same name. Lee also co-wrote the screenplay with Onah.

Onah talked about collaborating with Lee on the screenplay, “Despite how different we are on some levels, we have a similar sensibility when it comes to storytelling and the way we want to explore ideas and issues. Neither of us want to tell stories that are prescriptive or didactic in how they explore complex social issues. We both want to ask people to consider their blind spots, and to recognize their experience of the world will never be identical with anyone else’s.”

An all-star high school athlete and accomplished debater, Luce is a poster boy for the new American Dream. As are his parents, played by Naomi Watts and Tim Roth, adopted him from a war-torn country a decade earlier.

When Luce’s teacher, Ms. Wilson, makes a shocking discovery in his locker, Luce’s stellar reputation comes into question. But is he really at fault, or is Ms. Wilson preying on dangerous stereotypes?

Watching the trailer, Onah creates an intense, multi-layered, and entertaining look at identity in today’s America.

“47 Meters Down: Uncaged” Poster and Trailer

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Teenage girls go diving and explore a submerged Mayan City.

Directed by Johannes Roberts, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged follows the diving adventure of four teenage girls, played by Corinne Foxx, Sistine Stallone, Sophie Nélisse, and Brianne Tju. They explore a submerged Mayan City, and inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror.

They discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly Great White Sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.

The rest of the cast includes Brec Bassinger, Khylin Rhambo, Davi Santos, John Corbett, and Nia Long.

Roberts says that “47 Meters Down: Uncaged is very different from the first one [47 Meters Down.] These four girls – two step-sisters and two friends – basically, take a day by a lake in Mexico. One of the sisters is the daughter of an archaeologist working on this underwater mine city, mapping it out, and these girls all have basic dive skills, so they decide to go down to look at the first entrance. And then the tunnel collapses and they’re trapped.” Roberts flashes a shark-like grin before staying that, “they are not alone in there! So there’s claustrophobia, plus sharks! It’s pretty fucking scary.”

“Zombieland 2: Double Tap” Poster, Clips, Featurette & Trailers

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Abigail Breslin, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Jesse Eisenberg return to fight more Zombies.

Ten years ago, Zombieland became a hit and a cult classic that was fun to watch because it is such a wisecracking movie.

Directed by Ruben Fleischer, who directed Venom, the sequel, Zombieland 2: Double Tap seems as ridiculous as the first movie with the lead cast consisting of Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone. They reunite with director Ruben Fleischer and the original writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

In the sequel with Dave Callaham coming on board as the third writer, the comic mayhem continues from the first movie. The story stretches from the White House and through the heartland.

The four slayers must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own cynical, make-do family.

The featurette tells us how the second movie differs from the first. It appears to be a lot more crazy and bazaar that the first one.

The second trailer shows how silly the movie will be in the theatres and the problem with the zombies being faster.

The movie clip shows the movie has the same humor as the first movie.

We have two more clips for you, and they prove to show us that the movie is different, including a mystery behind the copycats.

The Absolutely Lowest, Daring “The Hunt” Trailers and Posters

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They are the hunted and unaware that their lives are in danger.

Directed by Craig Zobel, The Hunt begins when twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are or how they got there. They are unaware of the fact they are part of a hunt.

In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, a group of globalist elites gathers at a remote Manor House to hunt humans for sport for the very first time. But the elites’ master plan is about to be derailed because one of the hunted, Crystal, played by Betty Gilpin, the hunters’ game better than they do. She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off, one by one, as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman, played by Hilary Swank, at the center of it all.

For a horror movie, The Hunt includes underlying humor with an intensity boiling to eruption.

Jason Blum is the producer, and of late, he has produced horror movie after movie. He is best known for the films Get Out and Halloween. Damon Lindelof is also a producer, and Nick Cuse wrote the mysterious social thriller. Craig Zobel is known for directing Z for Zachariah and The Leftovers.

The rest of the cast includes Ike Barinholtz and Emma Roberts.

Because the movie was politically not correct, in so many ways, Blumhouse pulled the film indefinitely, but it looks like it is back and coming at us full speed.

“Black and Blue” Poster, Trailer, Featurettes & Clips

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Directed by Deon Taylor, the movie Black and Blue follows a rookie cop, played by Naomie Harris. The fast-paced action thriller begins when she inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam.

After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person who is not a cop, played by Tyrese Gibson, from her community who is willing to help her as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.

The last two movies Taylor directed were The Intruder and Traffik, and the screenplay is by Peter A. Dowling who wrote the script for Flightplan.

The rest of the cast includes Frank Grillo, Mike Colter, Reid Scott, Beau Knapp, and Nafessa Williams.

The featurette shows a movie worth seeing. The scenes look tight, and the story is strong.

The next two movie clips are in the trailer, but you see more of the storyline.

The featurettes tell a little more about the movie, but the footage is almost the same. There is also a little more footage not in the prior clips and trailer.

“Angel Has Fallen” Trailers, Clips & Poster

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Directed by Ric Roman Waugh, Angel Has Fallen begins with an assassination attempt on U.S. President Allan Trumbull, played by Morgan Freeman. His trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, played by Gerard Butler, is wrongfully accused and taken into custody.

After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his agency and outsmart the FBI to find the real threat to the President. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm and save the country from imminent danger.

The screenplay is by Robert Mark Kamen and Matt Cook with the story by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt.

Waugh is best known for being a stunt coordinator and doing stunts in tons of movies. He is also a screenwriter and directed a handful of movies.

The rest of the cast includes Danny Huston, Nick Nolte, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lance Reddick, and Tim Blake Nelson.

In the second trailer, Banning has a neurological issue from the attack on the President’s life. The overall feel for the movie is an action-pack intensity that is entertaining.

In this movie clip, we see the bad guy maneuvering the drones. He knows the Presidents entourage.

It’s good to see Nolte playing Butler’s dad. A little humor in the movie like this is good.

“Crawl” Poster, Clips and Trailer

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Directed by Alexandre Aja, Crawl is more than about a massive hurricane hitting a Florida hometown. Haley, played by Kaya Scodelario, ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father, played by Barry Pepper. Crawl is an intense horror thriller.

She finds him gravely injured in the crawl space of their family home. The two become trapped by swiftly encroaching floodwaters. Their time to escape runs out, and the strengthening storm with rising water levels is not what is threatening their survival. Haley and her father must contend with a humongous and vicious alligator.

Scodelario is best known for the Maze Runner franchise, and Pepper starred in two of the Maze Runner movies: The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure.

Aja is best known for his horror movie The Hills Have Eyes. He worked alongside producers Craig Flores, who produced 300, and Sam Raimi, who made Don’t Breathe and Evil Dead and directed some of the earlier Spider-man movies.

The following two clips show how intensely they play the scenes out, with the gators jumping out from nowhere and attacking the humans. The second clip had me jumping out of my skin.

Kaya Scodelario, as Haley, is trying to reach a rescue team.
The situation does not look good for this guy.

“Gemini Man” Trailer, Featurette, Clips & Poster

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Directed by Ang Lee, who is one of the most innovative directors, Gemini Man follows Henry Brogan, played by Will Smith. He becomes targeted and pursued by a mysterious operative, who is younger than Brogan. The pursuer seems to predict every move Brogan makes to avoid confrontation.

The movie billed as an innovative action-thriller also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, and Benedict Wong.

The screenplay is written by David Benioff, Billy Ray, and Darren Lemke. Lee is an Oscar-winning director and appears to be taking on a box office winner compared to his earlier movies of late. He is backed by top producers Jerry Bruckheimer, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger.

Though the trailer offers spoilers, the main point of the story is a younger version of Brogan is pursuing him, and he needs to discover the reason and who is behind it.

The featurette highlights what filmmakers can do with CGI (Computer Generated Imagery Animation ) and beyond. Viewers see the finished product on the screen, and it looks like nothing to it. Oh no, the technology is phenomenal.

The second trailer tells us that there is more to the movie than we thought. Though, the story is not complicated and appears to be about these two men trying to exceed each other for the man who made them both. Lee captured a brilliant shot in the chase scene with the water reflection of the younger version of Brogan.

The next four movie clips are scenes from the movie trailers. There is a lot of action and philosophical dialogue.

“Anna” Poster and Trailer

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Written and directed by Luc Besson, Anna follows a striking beauty, Anna Poliatova, played by Sasha Luss. Her secret unleashes her indelible strength and skill as one of the world’s most feared government assassins. 

Besson intends an “electrifying thrill ride unfolding with propulsive energy, startling twists and breathtaking action.”

Besson credits include Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, The Fifth Element, Nikita, and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.

This is Luss first leading role with Oscar winner Helen Mirren, Cillian Murphy, and Luke Evans.