Conformity leads to body horror in the official trailer for the upcoming Shudder original New Group.
The cosmic horror movie makes its streaming debut on November 6.
In New Group, “High school student Ai sees her world collapse when a strange cult-like mentality gradually turns people around her into mindless followers who can transform simple gymnastics routines into a nightmarish dance of death.“
Written and directed by Yûta Shimotsu (Best Wishes to All), New Group stars Anna Yamada, Yuzu Aoki, and Pierre Taki. Ren Komai, Danhi Kinoshita, Arisa Sasaki, Kano Rogers, Jun Hosoi, Ryo Matsumoto, Tomomitsu Adachi, Natsuko Sakakura, Takashi Shimizu, and Tomoya Maeno also star.
The trailer below definitely captures the absurdist, darkly comical tone seen in Best Wishes to All, which took the concept of happiness to twisted social extremes.
His sophomore feature, New Group, was screened at various festivals including the Fantasia International Film Festival and the Sitges Film Festival.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his 4-skull review that New Group “solidifies Shimotsu’s status as an anarchic and experimental storyteller who cuts to the core of universal topics through extremely unconventional means.” He also writes that it “creates an incredible, unpredictable body horror masterpiece that doubles as an indicting satire of Japan’s society.“
