Chris here, with some creepy trailers from auteurs for better (Chan-Wook Park and Zhang Yimou) or worse (M. Night Shyamalan). Let's take a look at the coming chills, from the kinky to the twisty to the digitally enhanced:
The Handmaiden
• We've been getting fall festival lineup announcements and hopefully this will pop up somewhere. After a well-reviewed debut in Cannes, we're betting at least on NYFF.
• "... And Stoker" is the most "And Peggy" response to director Chan-Wook Park's filmography.
• Too bad that Oscar is often afraid to get naughty - the design elements look immaculate, especially the cinematography from Park's frequent collaborator Chung-hoon Chung.
• The Handmaiden reenvisions Sarah Waters's novel Fingersmith across the globe and time periods. If only other literary adaptations could be so bold in their interpretations.
Check out what creepiness Shyamalan and Yimou have coming with their more famous stars after the jump...
Split
• James McAvoy giving us Norman Bates's Mother and then some? This can't end well for him or us.
• Anya Taylor-Joy is following up The Witch with this and next month's horror film Morgan. Our new scream queen or a fast track to type casting?
• Split personalities can only result in one of a few expected M. Night Shyamalan plot twists.
• ... yep, looks like a January release.
The Great Wall
• Say what you will about the actor, but Matt Damon was maybe the last I expected to see sporting a manbun.
• Historical fiction plus dragons plus star vehicle whitewashing. For a brief glimpse, this is already pulling us in too many bizarre directions.
• But we can always trust Zhang Yimou to be a stunning, eyepopping visual stylist.
• At least its not another franchise or reboot or video game adaptation?