An X-Men movie as a horror film.
That's the premise for the first trailer for The New Mutants, the upcoming film from director Josh Boone, based on the Marvel Comics mutant superteam. 20th Century Fox released the two-minute trailer late last night, giving us our first good look at the new addition to X-Men movie franchise.
The trailer opens with inside a creepy secret facility, with Dr. Cecilia Reyes (Alice Braga) speaking to Mirage/Danielle Moonstar (Blu Hunt). "I'm going to ask you a series of questions," begins Reyes as the camera slowly moves down a corridor. "I want you to respond truthfully. Have you ever hurt someone?"
"Yes," replies Danielle softly, as we see a cemetery with graves only marked with crosses and numbers in the hundreds.
We hear a chorus singing "We don't need no education" from the Pink Floyd song "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", as we see Danielle sitting in a chair with some sort of electrode attached to the temple of her forehead. "Have you ever experienced anything you consider...abnormal?" asks Reyes.
"Yes," answers Danielle, as we get a shot of Reyes watching a series of security cam monitors. "Last question," says Reyes. "Do you know what mutants are?"
We don't hear Danielle's answer to the third question, but instead switch to a scene where Reyes is drawing a blood sample from Danielle. "Did you know baby rattlesnakes are more dangerous than adult ones?" asks Reyes. "They haven't learned how to control how much venom they secrete."
We see fleeting glimpses of the other New Mutants, Magik/Illyana Rasputin (Anya Taylor-Joy), Sunspot/Roberto da Costa (Henry Zaga), Wolfsbane/Rahne Sinclair (Maisie Williams), and Cannonball/Sam Guthrie (Charlie Heaton). Reyes remarks, "All of you are dangerous. That's why you're here."
Inside the facility's laundry room, Sam sees a washing machine jostling without being turned on. He goes to look through the darkened machine window, but the inside of the machine suddenly ignites with fire as a hand of someone palms the window.
Next, we see an image of Reyes with the sides of her face clawed by something. Danielle wakes up in a room, fingers a drop of blood and asks "What is this place?" as a face suddenly emerges from the wall beside her.
"This isn't a hospital, it's a haunted house!" says a male voice, as we see Illyana and Sam standing in a doorway looking stunned at a bald figure in black wearing a large white smiley-face mask. The figure rips off the mask and Illyana screams in terror.
Illyana and Sam take off running down the corridor, and we see fleeting images of what appears to be Illyana as a little girl waking up in her bed, Sam working in a coal mine in Kentucky, Reyes forcibly injecting something into Illyana's neck, and Rahne screaming in terror at something inside the women's shower room.
"You've been through a lot," says Reyes in the trailer's final scene. "Get some rest." This is immediately followed by a shot of Danielle with some sort of breathing apparatus strapped over her mouth and screaming in terror.
If you'd like to check out the trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official 20th Century Fox UK account on YouTube...
The New Mutants is scheduled to arrive in theaters on April 13, 2018.
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