Red-Band Trailer For The Supernatural Horror Film WITCHBOARD
A new trailer has been released for the reimagining of the 1986 cult horror film Witchboard, which cames from Chuck Russell, the director behind The Blob and A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors. This looks like a gnarly horror film that will be filled with some wild and gory visuals.
Set in New Orleans, “Emily and her fiancé Christian are opening their new dream café. But their dreams are dashed when Emily finds an ancient, cursed Witchboard, an ancient artifact that once served as a gateway to the spirit world.
“As Emily becomes increasingly captivated by the board's ability to summon spirits, Christian seeks the expertise of Alexander Babtiste , an enigmatic occult scholar. As Emily's grip on reality weakens, Babtiste's true intentions come to light—to use the Witchboard's dark spirit power for his own twisted purposes.
“Culminating in a decadent masked ball at Babtiste's mansion, the line between temptation and terror blurs as Emily and Christian find themselves trapped in a deadly web of witchcraft and dark desires. Emily and Christian must race against time to break the board's curse before they succumb to its deadly power!”
Madison Iseman (I Know What You Did Last Summer) leads the cast as Emily, alongside Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders in the Building), Antonia Desplat (Shantaram), and Charlie Tahan (Ozark). Also along for the ride is Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower.
Speaking with Bloody Disgusting, Russell said: “I wanted to get back to the horror genre. I’ve been keeping an eye out for that over the course of my career, and I wanted to do something even scarier and more imaginative. I wanted to top my other two horror films,” he said.
He added: “I put everything I hadn’t tried into this film. I hope that fans of my work will recognize my touch. But we have dreams; we have deadly hallucinations. We have body swaps; we have literal time travel. It’s fun in that regard, but number one is to scare the hell out of people, and I think we’ve done that, too.”
The film is set to hit theaters August 15, 2025.