Overview
- The Motion Picture Association informed cinemas that the film’s one-sheet artwork is too intense for areas where children might see advertisements.
- An initial uncensored trailer was taken down by YouTube for violent or graphic content, and a red-band version was later released.
- IFC Films and Shudder remain set to open the R-rated remake in U.S. theaters on April 10.
- The new film reframes the 1978 shockumentary as a story about a content moderator who encounters videos that may reenact real murders.
- The cast features Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and Charli XCX, with Daniel Goldhaber directing from a script co-written with Isa Mazzei.