Fast-Paced Trailer for the Web Thriller OPEN WINDOWS with Elijah Wood

A thrilling new trailer has been released for Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey's new movie Open Windows. The movie comes from Timecrimes director Nacho Vigolando, and it looks great. I love the concept and how the story is told through several different forms of technology.

Jill (Sasha Grey) is a famous actress who has refused to have dinner with Nick (Elijah Wood), a fan who won a date with her in an Internet contest organized by the distributor of her latest film. In return, a guy named Chord (Neil Maskell), posing as Jill's campaign manager, tries to help Nick by letting him watch her through his computer. But the superfan soon realizes he's just a pawn in a dangerous game devised by Chord in order to hunt down the star. 

The story unfolds on the screen of a laptop connected using the internet. The real-time feature has been described as "90 minutes of suspense in a tense, fast-paced, high-tech thriller with action and terror, updating the key elements of 70s paranoid thrillers through today’s computer and online environment." Here's what the director had to say about it:

"Just as in Brian De Palma’s Blow Out, the girl is captured. The hero will have to use every means at his disposal to discover where she is, and rescue her from the villain before its too late.

"The action will be followed on the screen of a laptop connected to the Internet – an approach that has excited us all from the outset. Something like this means going beyond high concept films like Paranormal ActivityCloverfield or Chronicle. Instead of simulating a home video camera, we will be representing a computer desktop. The movie screen becomes a computer screen, and the spectator becomes the protagonist of this adventure.

"Open Windows is full of twists, but it’s essentially a 90-minute chase, a continuous climax with unrelenting tension… it is also a powerful viral tool, with a wide potential for different audiences."

12 different cameras were used to make the movie, including webcams, head cameras, tablets, mobile phones, and 3D mapping cameras as well as security and satellite cameras. The movie will be released on September 29th.

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