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‘Somewhere Quiet’ – Exclusive Teaser Instills Paranoia As It Questions What Happens to the Final Girl After She Survives
Writer/Director Olivia West Lloyd’s feature debut, Somewhere Quiet, interrogates what happens to the Final Girl after the credits roll.
Ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive teaser trailer that teases the haunting paranoia and unsettled sense of reality from surviving trauma.
In the film, “Months after escaping a brutal kidnapping, Meg travels with her husband, Scott, to his family’s isolated compound in Cape Cod, hoping the early winter quiet will give her space to recover and for them to reconnect. Shortly after they arrive, however, the couple discovers they are not alone on the property. Scott’s charming but overbearing cousin, Madelin, is staying next door. To Meg’s surprise, the two are quite close, and soon, Madelin’s presence is inescapable. With each passing day, Meg and Scott’s already fragile relationship begins to fracture, while Meg is haunted by vivid nightmares, visions of an old woman lurking in the woods, and a growing suspicion that Scott and Madelin are hiding something from her.
As the tension in the house grows, Meg begins to act out in increasingly reckless ways, setting into motion a series of disturbing events that shatters the thin barrier of civility between her and the cousins. Subtle manipulation gives way to violent confrontation as Scott and Madelin reveal their troubling history, and Meg learns the truth about her abduction.”
Somewhere quiet stars Jennifer Kim (She Dies Tomorrow), Kentucker Audley (V/H/S, She Dies Tomorrow), Marin Ireland (The Boogeyman, The Dark and the Wicked), and Micheál Neeson.
West Lloyd said in a director’s statement, “I began writing the script for Somewhere Quiet after watching a particularly brutal horror film. The final frame was of a girl – covered in blood, the rest of her group dead – waiting for the police to arrive. The film ended there, but it didn’t feel over to me. What happens to the girl who survives? If she’s lucky, she gets to go home. For a while, everyone will swarm her: her family, her friends, the media. But over time, those people will slip back into their normal routines, swallowed by the minutiae of their own lives. The news will forget about her, finding some new tragedy to obsess over. She will return to the mundane, carrying what happened to her into every banal moment of her forever-altered present.”
Somewhere Quiet makes its World Premiere tomorrow night, with subsequent screenings to follow:
Thursday, June 8 at 9:30pm – World Premiere
Friday, June 9 at 6:15pm
Wednesday, June 14 at 5:30pm
Tribeca Film Festival tickets are available now.
Stayed tuned for Bloody Disgusting’s full Tribeca 2023 coverage.
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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