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Meet ‘The Addams Family’ in the First Creepy and Kooky Trailer
This Halloween season will be creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky when MGM visits the door of The Addams Family. The Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan-directed animated film will deliver tricks and treats on October 11th, and today we get the first trailer.
The new incarnation introduces Charlize Theron as the voice of Morticia Addams, with Oscar Isaac voicing Gomez Addams, and Chloe Grace Moretz as Wednesday Addams. The cast also includes Finn Wolfhard as Pugsley Addams, Nick Kroll as Uncle Fester, Bette Midler as Grandma, Allison Janney as Margaux Needler, and Elsie Fisher as Parker Needler, the daughter of Margaux.
The Addams Family is your average American family…only different. The first teaser trailer doesn’t offer any of the film’s actual plot (it follows the family as they face off against a crafty reality TV host), but it does a great job of introducing us to the iconic characters. The tone is right in line with the previous art, show, and films, and even delivers a handful of quality jokes, like a great homage to Pennywise and his infamous red balloon. What do you think?
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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