The first trailer for upcoming horror/thriller film, Good Neighbours, has gone up over on the iTunes Movie Trailers website, and it looks pretty promising.
The film is written and directed by Jacob Tierney, and is based on the novel, Chère Voisine (which I think roughly translates the same), by Canadian novelist, Chrystine Brouillet.
Tierney, also Canadian, has set all his films to date in Montreal, which is where the story of Good Neighbours unravels, with a strong Canadian cast. A lot of Canadian actors (as well as many other nationalities) often stick to American-made movies once they’ve made a name for themselves, so it’s nice to see that Tierney’s found a group to work with who are happy to come back to their roots too. Heading up Good Neighbours will be Scott Speedman (Underworld), Jay Baruchel (How To Train Your Dragon), and Emily Hampshire (It’s A Boy Girl Thing).
Both Baruchel and Hampshire have worked with Tierney before, and will no doubt already have a great chemistry with the director, which should translate well to the screen. The film will see their three characters living together in the same apartment building, their town becoming the stomping ground for a serial killer.
Neighbors Spencer (Scott Speedman) and Louise (Emily Hampshire) have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor (Jay Baruchel) arrives in the building, all three quickly hit it off. But as they soon discover, each of them has their own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety. But the more time these three spend together in their apartment building, the clearer it becomes that what they once thought of as a safe haven is as dangerous as any outside terrors they could imagine. Smart dialogue, strong performances and jarring thrills give this film all the elements of a great mystery.
The film will be released in America on VOD on 24th June and then be given a brief theatrical run on 24th July. Sadly, I don’t think it’ll be hitting our cinemas, so we may have to wait a while longer for a DVD release, because the trailer does make it seem like the kind of horror/thriller that will keep its tensions high up until what will hopefully be a brilliant denouement.
I always like it when music is used to contrast the atmosphere in a scene, when it’s done well, and thrillers and horrors often grant the best potential to do that. This trailer does exactly that at its end, playing a bit of a slow, indie-esque song with a female singer followed by Hampshire seeing something that terrifies her, and not allowing us the satisfaction of seeing it too.
If you’d like to see or download the trailer for yourself in beautiful 1080p HD, then you can do so here, and here’s the 360p version, with the poster beneath it.
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