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io9TrailersYou Do Not Want Your Picture Taken By the Camera in Polaroid
It’s often said that some cultures believe taking someone’s picture steals a piece of their soul. That seems like getting off easy compared to what happens in Polaroid. Polaroid, a new horror film directed by Lars Klevberg, is basically about a camera that kills you. Once it takes your photo, a shadow shows up and … Continued
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io9TrailersChucky Is the Most Terrifying Therapy Doll Ever in the Trailer for Cult of Chucky (UPDATED)
Here’s a idea: maybe if you are a doctor treating patents with childhood trauma after being attacked by a killer doll, don’t bring the doll into the hospital? Then again, there’s no movie if you don’t. The first trailer for Don Mancini’s Cult of Chucky has arrived, and though it’s not 100 percent clear what’s … Continued
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io9TrailersJumanji‘s First Trailer Is Here and No One Is Happy to Be Playing This Game
Even with the presence of Dwayne Johnson, I’m not sure I’m happy watching this. There’s a lot missing from the original story’s magic in this version, where it’s a video game and a teenage girl is stuck in Jack Black’s body. The trailer starts by trying to evoke The Breakfast Club with four kids with … Continued
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io9TrailersCreepy, Crawly, Unlikely Scifi Film The Untamed Now Has a Freaky First Trailer
Outside of one or two shots, the trailer for The Untamed doesn’t really reflect the movie’s title. There’s some drama going on here. Some frank discussions of sexuality. Pretty tame stuff. And then… what the HELL is that weird, slimy thing? All is revealed in The Untamed, directed by Amat Escalante, which opens in a … Continued
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io9TrailersHere’s Your Requisite ‘Shows the Whole Damn Thing’ War for the Planet of the Apes Trailer
It’s always the same with blockbuster movie marketing these days—the closer you get to release, the more and more footage comes out to the point you could piece together everything chronologically and come away with a huge chunk of the actual movie. Sometimes the studios themselves do it for you in the form of trailers … Continued
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io9TrailersThe Newest Game of Thrones Trailer Suggests Our Hopes and Fears Are All True
HBO has just released its latest trailer for season seven of Game of Thrones, focusing on the war that is and the war to come. Winter is here, everyone, and while things aren’t looking great for the peoples of Westeros—particularly everyone who’s dumb enough to be fighting against Daenerys—season seven is looking utterly fantastic for … Continued
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io9TrailersThe New Annabelle: Creation Trailer Offers a Reminder That Orphans Shouldn’t Play With Haunted Dolls
The Conjuring universe will soon be adding a demonic nun and a Crooked Man to its firmament—but first, we’ll be getting more backstory on cinema’s scariest doll since Chucky. A second trailer for Annabelle: Creation dropped today, and it elaborates on the girls-in-peril plot we glimpsed in the first spot. Directed by David F. Sandberg … Continued
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io9TrailersHappy Death Day Looks Like Groundhog Day Meets Scream
A college student is forced to live the same day over and over again. The catch is that it’s the day that she’s murdered, and she’s stuck in her loop until she figures out the identity of the masked person who keeps killing her. Welcome to Happy Death Day. Directed by Christopher Landon, the film … Continued
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io9TrailersBrigsby Bear Is a Weird Movie About a Mysterious TV Show Created for a Single Kid
Lots of kids have one big favorite TV show—something they watch every single week and obsess about in between. But what if you found out the show you loved growing up was made only for you? What would that mean? That’s the set-up of Brigsby Bear, a movie that looks both creepy and hilarious. Directed … Continued
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io9TrailersThe Trailer for the Flatliners Remake Enters the World of Competitive Dying
If you know the 1990 film, the story of the new Flatliners should not be a huge shock. Five medical students start an “experiment” where they stop each other’s hearts and then restart them, allowing them to see what happens when they die. Then things go wrong. This version stars Ellen Page as Courtney, the … Continued
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io9TrailersOlaf’s on the Hunt for Tradition in the Trailer for Olaf’s Frozen Adventure
A new short set in the world of Frozen will debut in front of Coco, and in it, Olaf the snowman (Josh Gad) travels the world, collecting winter holiday traditions to share with Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel), who have none of their own. The shortened length makes sense if you remember that … Continued
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io9TrailersIf Starship Troopers Was Serious, Its Trailer Would Look Like This
Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers is a timeless movie because it works on so many levels. Is it a kick-ass science fiction action film? Yes. Is it a subversive allegory about war? Yes. Does it have complete control of its weirdness? Absolutely. And yet, it can still be more. As a child, editor Tim Gonzales saw … Continued
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io9TrailersEverything We Learned From the Black Panther Teaser Trailer
We got our first good look at Black Panther last night. And it was great and shockingly revealing about how things are going to go. As usual, we dissected the whole thing for you. The trailer starts in an interrogation in a safehouse in what’s been confirmed to be Korea. Both men should be familiar … Continued
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io9TrailersThe Creepy New Killing Ground Trailer Will Make You Seriously Rethink Ever Going Camping Again
Horror movies about rural jaunts gone horrifically awry are nothing new, but Killing Ground, from writer-director Damien Power, tightens the screws in a few key ways. One, as we noted when the first trailer dropped, is by bringing a baby into the mix. The other is by setting the movie in Australia, where nature is … Continued
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io9TrailersThe New Shadow of War Trailer Throws a Tolkienesque Kitchen Sink at Middle-Earth
The first game in Warner Bros’ latest Lord of the Rings franchise, Shadow of Mordor, tried to position itself as something that could have ostensibly happened in between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. It played with, but respected, the canon of Middle-Earth. Its sequel, on the other hand, is tossing that out the … Continued
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io9TrailersThe Second Trailer for Pixar’s Coco Reveals the Film’s Family-History Themes
In the second trailer for Pixar’s Coco, we get more of the eye candy seen in the first—as well as a better glimpse of the film’s warm, gentle humor and some of the themes that’ll drive its plot. After a very special guitar transports a young boy and his dog to the Land of the … Continued
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io9TrailersSigourney Weaver Pops Up in a Weird New Trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s Short Film Project
It seems pretty unlikely that we’ll ever see Sigourney Weaver return to the Alien franchise with director Neill Blomkamp. But we now know she’ll return to an alien type film from the director as part of his new venture, Oats Studios. Oats Studios is headed up by Blomkamp (who is best known for directing District … Continued
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io9TrailersWhat Was That Mysterious Teaser Trailer Before Wonder Woman?
Lots of people saw Wonder Woman this weekend, which means lots of people saw a very mysterious trailer that played in front of it. The trailer had some dialogue, the words “Ever Wonder?”, a woman dressed as a superhero, and a URL. So, what was it? Well, if you didn’t see it (apparently the trailer … Continued
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io9TrailersThe Latest Teaser for The Mist Warns That Nature Is Out for Revenge
Spike TV’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist is already looking like must-watch horror TV, with mysterious monsters and human monsters causing all kinds of chaos and gore. This latest trailer suggests the mist is caused by “nature turning sour,” or as you could also call it, climate change… with a vengeance. The Mist … Continued
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io9TrailersIn the First Seven Sisters Trailer, Monday Goes Missing
We are living in a golden age of Very Good Actors™ playing opposite themselves as identical siblings or clones of themselves. In the first trailer for Seven Sisters, Noomi Rapace follows throws her hat into the ring by playing all of the film’s titular septuplets who are fighting for their lives in a dystopian future … Continued