A good trailer is an art form, one that is able to convey a movie’s plot, tone and style all while resisting that ever-present urge to score it to a slowed-down pop song.
The trailer synopsis reads “A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.” While filmed back in 2019, the pandemic delayed the release of the film, now set for a theatrical release this summer.
Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her husband’s twisted plan.” Judging from the trailer, those killers seem to be operating under the husband’s instructions, so it seems fair to surmise that the entire ordeal has been orchestrated from the start.
The road they were traveling on has disappeared and there is only a dense, impenetrable forest and a wooden house in the middle of a clearing, which they discover is the home of a spine-chilling cult.” The references and allusions to other films and horror sub-genres in the trailer are copious in quantity and pervasive in their scope.
If that description, and the trailer’s hints at slapstick and a Fantastic Mr. Fox level of tangible warmth, don’t melt your heart, you may need to get yourself checked out before Santa leaves you with a lump of coal.