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Intense ‘Meander’ Trailer Mixes ‘Cube’ & ‘Saw’, and Is Nightmarishly Claustrophobic! [Video]
Hostile director Mathieu Turi is back with a new sci-fi thriller that looks absolutely bonkers.
In Meander, a woman (Gaia Weiss; “Vikings”) wakes up in a strange tube full of deadly traps. Her only option is to keep moving forward. But it is not clear how far she can get.
The first international trailer is here and it’s intense and nightmarishly claustrophobic, looking like a perfect blend of Vincenzo Natali’s sci-fi horror Cube and James Wan’s nasty torture film, Saw. It’s colorful, nasty, and filled with traps, not to mention creatures?
Written and directed by Turi, Variety has previously reported that the English-language film also stars Peter Franzen as a man whose “intentions are mysterious.” From the looks of it, he’s been trapped in this maze for a long, long time.
Thanks to Fabien M. for sending.
“You wake up.
You wear a futuristic suit.
You are stuck in an endless metal maze.
Every 8 minutes, you need to move forward or die.
The only reason to know why is to survive every death trap on your way.”
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‘Abigail’ on Track for a Better Opening Weekend Than Universal’s Previous Two Vampire Attempts
In the wake of Leigh Whannell’s Invisible Man back in 2020, Universal has been struggling to achieve further box office success with their Universal Monsters brand. Even in the early days of the pandemic, Invisible Man scared up $144 million at the worldwide box office, while last year’s Universal Monsters: Dracula movies The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Renfield didn’t even approach that number when you COMBINE their individual box office hauls.
The horror-comedy Renfield came along first in April 2023, ending its run with just $26 million. The period piece Last Voyage of the Demeter ended its own run with a mere $21 million.
But Universal is trying again with their ballerina vampire movie Abigail this weekend, the latest bloodbath directed by the filmmakers known as Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream).
Unlike Demeter and Renfield, the early reviews for Abigail are incredibly strong, with our own Meagan Navarro calling the film “savagely inventive in terms of its vampiric gore,” ultimately “offering a thrill ride with sharp, pointy teeth.” Read her full review here.
That early buzz – coupled with some excellent trailers – should drive Abigail to moderate box office success, the film already scaring up $1 million in Thursday previews last night. Variety notes that Abigail is currently on track to enjoy a $12 million – $15 million opening weekend, which would smash Renfield ($8 million) and Demeter’s ($6 million) opening weekends.
Working to Abigail‘s advantage is the film’s reported $28 million production budget, making it a more affordable box office bet for Universal than the two aforementioned movies.
Stay tuned for more box office reporting in the coming days.
In Abigail, “After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”
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