Overview
- The meta horror remake, which dropped a red-band trailer Wednesday, previews a graphic campaign in the run-up to the April 10 U.S. opening from IFC and Shudder.
- Barbie Ferreira plays a content moderator who finds videos that appear to restage killings from the infamous 1978 film and must judge if the violence is staged or real.
- Daniel Goldhaber directs from a script co-written with Isa Mazzei, with Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and Charli XCX in the cast.
- Tickets are on sale now and the film carries an R rating for strong bloody violence and gore, sexual content, nudity, language, and drug use.
- Outlets note age-restricted, red-band marketing and new character posters, with some coverage spotlighting Montgomery’s ominous voiceover and the remake’s “is it real?” hook rooted in the original’s mix of staged and alleged real footage.