Trailers

After premiering at last year’s TIFF, R.T. Thorne’s post-apocalyptic thriller 40 Acres is finally making its way into movie theaters this summer on July 2nd.

Co-writer / director Matt Palmer’s Fear Street: Prom Queen is the first of Netflix’s new trilogy of horror features inspired by R.L. Stine’s books, and the movie’s first trailer makes it look like it’ll be a teen-friendly (albeit R-rated) riff on classic slashers when it debuts on May 23rd.

The Slayer approacheth. Every day we get closer to the May 15th release date of Doom: The Dark Ages. In the lead up to launch, id Software has been drip feeding fans new trailers and tidbits to keep the hype high. With this latest update, the developers at id are showing off an all new location, the cosmic realm, new Lovecraftian enemies, and new combat mechanics that are gonna look mighty familiar to anyone who’s played Returnal.

In addition to dropping a new trailer for Wednesday’s upcoming second season, Netflix has confirmed that the series’ next chapter will be split in two with the first half debuting on August 6th, and the second on September 3rd.

Summer is still a few months away, but there’s a new trailer for director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, which looks fine save for the conspicuous lack of Brandy Norwood’s Karla Wilson. The movie’s out July 18th.

Warner Bros.’ unsettling new teaser for writer / director Zach Cregger’s latest film Weapons doesn’t reveal all that much. But the movie’s promotional website makes it seem like we might be in for an expansion of the Barbarian universe when it hits theaters on August 8th.

With just a few weeks left before its May 15th launch date, Bethesda has released a second trailer for Doom: The Dark Ages. The last two Doom games have slowly been building up the mythology of the Doom Slayer, the nigh godlike entity whose favorite hobby is ripping and tearing until it is done. With this The Dark Ages trailer, it seems like Bethesda is poised to give us the most story laden Doom game yet.

After a long struggle to find a distributor — one producer told World of Reel it was seen as “unreleasable” because of how gross it is — the Dinklage-starring remake of The Toxic Avenger is finally due for theatrical release on August 29th in the US.

Sports are already pretty scary if you’re a Maple Leafs fan like me, but Him somehow looks even more terrifying. Directed by Justin Tipping and produced by Jordan Peele, the movie follows an up-and-coming quarterback (Tyriq Withers) dealing with “potentially career-ending brain trauma” after an attack from a fan. Things only get darker from there. The movie hits theaters on September 19th.

The latest trailer for FBC: Firebreak — a multiplayer spinoff of Control — looks delightfully weird, and is making me feel justified in my irrational hatred of sticky notes. The game launches this summer, but Remedy is also hosting a livestream on April 24th at 1PM ET with a deeper look and some news. Hopefully we get a release date.

It seems like there are actually going to be quite a few uninfected humans running around in 28 Years Later. The film’s latest trailer is filled with survivors and soldiers armed with lethal weapons, but once Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son Spike (Alfie Williams) leave from the safety of their remote home, they’ve got to fend for themselves to keep the rage-fueled ghouls at bay.

While Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie Cale can always tell when someone is lying, the new trailer for Poker Face’s upcoming second season makes it pretty hard to tell which of its characters are murderers hiding in plain sight. Clearly, there’s something up with that strange little girl, but is she a killer? You be the judge.

Writer / director Drew Hancock’s new thriller Companion stands somewhere between M3gan and Lars and the Real Girl with its story about a man (Jack Quaid) whose girlfriend (Sophie Thatcher) doesn’t know that she’s actually a sophisticated android. The movie’s an inspired entry in the growing canon of AI panic horrors, and if you missed it during its theatrical run, you’ll be able to catch it on Max beginning April 19th.

With the reveal of the Switch 2, Nintendo’s going all in on the console’s new and improved social features. During the Switch 2 direct presentation, the company showed off the how new “C” button will be used to connect with your friends with voice and video chat. While we didn’t get to test out those features in our hands-on coverage, Nintendo did release a new video that goes into detail on what to expect.

With Talk to Me, directors Danny and Michael Philippou gave us an enthralling taste of their ability to spin deeply disturbing horror tales. And the new trailer for their latest feature, Bring Her Back, makes it looks like they’re about to leave us all terrified once again when the film hits theaters on May 30th.

We’re not far out from the next batch of Black Mirror episodes hitting Netflix on April 10th. And while we’ve already seen some of the new season, that latest trailer provides a more detailed rundown of the six episodes, including the direct sequel to “USS Callister.”

Though Final Destination: Bloodlines could have been a full-on reboot, the movie’s new trailer makes it look a proper continuation of the franchise’s original story that will bring back the late Tony Todd’s William Bludworth when it hits theaters on May 16th.

Neon has dropped a teaser for Together, director Michael Shanks’ upcoming psychological horror about a married couple (Alison Brie and Dave Franco) whose plan to start new lives out in the countryside takes a supernatural turn after they encounter a malevolent presence. The trailer (and title) makes it seem like the pair’s relationship might be the real issue at hand, but we won’t know for sure until the film’s out on August 1st.

The first Ballerina trailer made it seem like John Wick might just show up for a quick trailer, but it’s looking more and more like the spin-off will feature a full-on brawl between Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas when it hits theaters on June 6th.

F1 has a new trailer out that makes it seem, you know, like a movie about dudes driving around in circles. The film centers on Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), a retired driver whose F1 team-owning friend Ruben (Javier Bardem) pulls him back onto the track to mentor up-and-coming racer Joshua “Noah” Pearce (Damson Idris). It hits theaters on June 27th before it winds up on Apple TV Plus at some point in the future.

The first trailer for The Life of Chuck — an adaptation of a Stephen King short story from Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan — doesn’t show much, but it does a good job at teasing heartwarming post-apocalyptic ghost story (you read that right). The film hits theaters in the summer, but if you’re curious, here’s my review from TIFF last year.