Red-Band Teaser Trailer For The Insane Film ASSASSINATION NATION Offers Up Some Trigger Warnings
A wickedly wild red-band teaser trailer has been released for the upcoming film Assassination Nation and it offers you a bunch of trigger warnings for people who are easily offended because this film is offensive. Some of those trigger warnings include sexism, racism, torture, violence, and fragile male egos.
I saw this film up at Sundance earlier this year and it was one of my favorite movies that I saw at the film festival. It was just so utterly brutal in all kinds of aspects. Sure, the violence is crazy brutal, but so are the statements that the film is making about society. Here's a rundown of the story of the film from my review:
The film is set in the small town of Salem, reminiscent of where 20 witches were hung because of nothing more than rumors about them being witches. In fact, imagine how much crazier things might have been if the Salem Witch mob had access to social media. That is kind of the road that this movie takes us down.
Assassination Nation is set in the present-day and centers around a high school senior named Lilly and her three best friends, who like most people these days, engulf themselves in social media with all of the selfies, texting, chatting, and photos. Well, these four young ladies are forced to fight for their lives when an anonymous hacker exposes all of the town’s dirty little secrets from their digital private lives. This includes browser histories, direct messages, illegal downloads, secret texts and a lot of these things have the power to ruin lives. The people of the town become fed up with the leaks and they end up going bat-shit crazy with rage as they try to find out who is behind it.
This movie isn't for everyone. But if you like what you see in this teaser trailer and you like what you're hearing about it, then you've got to watch it because it's one hell of a wild ride!
The film comes from writer and director Sam Levinson and stars a talented cast that includes Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, Abra, Bill Skarsgard and Bella Thorne. David S. Goyer (Man of Steel) is also a producer on the film.
The film will be released in theaters on September 21, 2018. I also included a new poster for the film below that includes the tagline, "You Asked For It, America."