Eerie Trailer for Edgar Wright's Fantastic-Looking Horror Thriller LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
Focus Features has shared the full trailer for Edgar Wright’s highly anticipated psychological horror-thriller, Last Night in Soho. This offers our best look yet at the story that Wright has created, and it looks like a fantastic film that will be wonderfully unsettling.
The story is set in London and follows a young girl “who is passionate about fashion design, who mysteriously enters the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to fall apart with shady consequences.”
The trailer starts out optimistic enough, but it slowly descends into a gloriously terrifying nightmare. I’ve always wanted to see wright make a proper scary horror movie, and it certainly looks like we’re going to get that with Last Night in Soho!
The movie also stars Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), Thomasin McKenzie (JoJo Rabbit), Matt Smith (The Crown), Synnøve Karlsen, Michael Ajao, Diana Rigg, Terence Stamp, and Rita Tushingham.
Last Night in Soho will now be released on October 22, 2021.
Wright wrote the script for the film with Penny Dreadful scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns. When previously talking about it, Wright described the film as being in the vein of Donald Sutherland’s 1973 film Don’t Look Now and Roman Polanski’s 1965 movie Repulsion.
When previously talking about the film Thomasin McKenzie said, “It’s genuinely something I’ve never seen before. Very unique. I love things where you’re reading a script, and you know where it’s going, and then it just goes in a completely different direction,” and when talking about the character she plays, she says, “She’s almost got kind of a sixth sense. She can feel things that are on another level that most people can’t see or feel.”
When talking about the inspiration behind the film Wright said, “I realized I had never made a film about central London – specifically Soho, somewhere I’ve spent a huge amount of time in the last 25 years. With Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead you make movies about places you’ve lived in. This movie is about the London I’ve existed in.”
