Hulu has announced that their dystopian thriller, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, which premieres April 26th, will have its world premiere at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. The announcement was made with a new trailer that shows a horrible dystopian future, which we allowed; while is quite dramatic, it does have a ton of horror elements. “The Handmaid’s Tale” looks like a terrifying future that could be capable of anything…
Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized ‘return to traditional values’. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.
