Trailer Round-Up: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, Anaconda, The Housemaid, The Last Frontier, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, and More
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🎥 NEW MOVIE TRAILERS:
The Horsemen’s biggest trick could be their last.
🎥 Now You See Me: Now You Don’t — Trailer
(in theaters Nov. 14th)
The Horsemen are back! But this time, the deck’s been reshuffled. Jesse Eisenberg’s cocky card shark Danny Atlas, Woody Harrelson’s wisecracking mentalist Merritt McKinney, Isla Fisher’s daring escape artist Henley Reeves, and Dave Franco’s slick pickpocket Jack Wilder thought the act was over years ago. But when a new generation of underground illusionists—Bosco (Dominic Sessa), June (Ariana Greenblatt), and Charlie (Justice Smith)—start co-opting their name and fame, the old crew has no choice but to reappear.
Enter the ultimate score: a priceless diamond guarded by the icy Vanderberg dynasty, with Rosamund Pike playing the heiress from hell. To pull it off, Danny needs both the original Horsemen and their young rivals. Suddenly, it’s not four... it’s eight! With Morgan Freeman back as master manipulator Thaddeus Bradley, the game has never been trickier. But with egos as oversized as their illusions, can this unlikely troupe actually work together, or will the heist collapse before the first trick lands?
Directed by Ruben Fleischer (Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Uncharted), Now You See Me: Now You Don’t promises a globe-trotting caper stuffed with explosive set pieces, glossy sleight-of-hand, and plenty of wink-at-the-camera comedy. The stage is set for a flashy, intergenerational showdown.
Old tricks, new blood, double the spectacle—this might just be the slickest con yet. Hitting theaters November 14th.
Be careful what you wish for... and what you try to remake!
🎥 Anaconda — Trailer
(in theaters Dec. 25th)
Jack Black and Paul Rudd star as lifelong pals who make the mistake of turning their childhood obsession into a midlife crisis project: remaking the gloriously cheesy 1997 creature feature Anaconda. What starts as a goofy jungle adventure with their ragtag crew (Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, Daniela Melchior, and Selton Mello) quickly slithers into disaster when a stunt goes wrong and a real snake enters the picture. Spoiler: 40-foot anacondas aren’t great scene partners.
Directed by Tom Gormican (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent), this comedy of errors morphs from cinephile dream to survival nightmare as Doug (Black) and Griff (Rudd) discover the only thing scarier than a flop film is a giant predator that doesn’t care about its close-up. Equal parts buddy comedy and survival jungle thriller, Anaconda promises holiday-sized chaos with midlife meltdowns, shaky cam, and a whole lot of scales.
Anaconda hisses into theaters December 25th. Because nothing says Christmas like watching two middle-aged men try (and fail) to direct a snake.
Every house hides its secrets. And sometimes, so do the people who live in it.
🎥 The Housemaid — Trailer
(in theaters Dec. 19th)
Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried face off in The Housemaid, a sultry psychological thriller where spotless rooms can’t hide messy lives. Sweeney stars as Millie, a young woman trying to escape her past by taking a live-in job at the lavish Winchester estate. But what looks like a dream gig quickly turns sinister as she’s drawn into the twisted marriage of Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew (Brandon Sklenar).
Directed by Paul Feig (A Simple Favor), the film trades feather dusters for mind games, as scandal, manipulation, and simmering danger bubble beneath every dubious smile. With Michele Morrone as a mysterious groundskeeper and Elizabeth Perkins as the imposing family matriarch, Millie soon learns she’s not the only one hiding skeletons... and hers may be the deadliest of all.
Based on Freida McFadden’s bestselling novel and adapted by Rebecca Sonnenshine, The Housemaid is set to sweep into theaters December 19th.
Metalheads, grab your axes! Both the musical and the bloody kind!
🎥 Deathgasm II: Goremageddon — Trailer
(Coming Soon)
Ten years after the cult Kiwi splatter-comedy Deathgasm melted faces and blasted eardrums, the headbanging horror is back with Deathgasm II: Goremageddon. Milo Cawthorne returns as Brodie, the once-promising metalhead now broke, evicted, and haunted by his fallen bandmates. His brilliant plan to fix it all? Raise the dead and reunite his band for another battle-of-the-bands competition. Small snag: his old bandmates come back as zombies.
Naturally, undead riffs equal apocalyptic carnage, and the sleepy New Zealand setting once again becomes ground zero for chainsaws, demon guts, and gory guitar solos. Writer-director Jason Howden, who first unleashed the madness in 2015, leans even harder into the absurdity, delivering a gleefully grotesque encore drenched in blood, laughs, and power chords.
With the original gang back—Milo Cawthorne, Daniel Cresswell, Kimberley Crossman, James Blake, and Sam Berkley—this sequel promises more gore, more riffs, and more midnight-movie insanity than ever before.
After premiering at Fantastic Fest in Austin and now ready to screen at Monster Fest in Australia this October, Deathgasm II: Goremageddon looks primed to shred its way into cult status once more. So, throw up those devil horns!
No arenas. No pyrotechnics. Just Bruce, a guitar, and a four-track recorder.
🎥 Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere — New Trailer
(in theaters Oct. 24th)
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere strips down the legend to his rawest moment, with Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) stepping into The Boss’s worn boots. Set in 1982, the film follows Springsteen as he retreats to his New Jersey farmhouse, wrestling with depression and disillusionment, and recording what would become his bleakest, most intimate album: Nebraska.
Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) and based on Warren Zanes’ biography, the film zeroes in on the fragile, haunted process of turning despair into art. Jeremy Strong plays Bruce’s loyal manager Jon Landau, Odessa Young appears as Bruce’s love interest Faye, and Stephen Graham and Gaby Hoffmann embody Bruce’s parents, with Marc Maron, Paul Walter Hauser, and David Krumholtz filling out the band of misfits surrounding the famed recording sessions.
Forget stadium anthems, this is a hushed, aching biopic about stripping away the noise and staring down the silence to sing away the demons in your head. And with Jeremy Allen White at the mic, don’t be surprised if awards buzz follows.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere opens October 24th.
🎥 additional movie trailers:
🎥 “Queens of the Dead” Trailer: Filmmaker Tina Romero Mashes Zombies, Drag Queens, and Camp in Her Feature Debut with Katy O’Brian, Riki Lindhome, and Margaret Cho — In Theaters October 24th
Tina Romero (the daughter of the late, horror filmmaker Geroge A. Romero) puts a glittery, gory spin on the zombie genre as Brooklyn drag queens and club kids battle the undead in her film debut, a LGBT-centic midnight horror comedy.
🎥 “Vicious” Trailer: Dakota Fanning Faces Terrifying House Demands in Bryan Bertino’s New Supernatural Horror with Kathryn Hunter — Premiering October 10th on Paramount+ and VOD
From the director of The Strangers, this chilling thriller stars Dakota Fanning as a woman trapped in a home that makes deadly demands.
🎥 “Anemone” New Trailer: Daniel Day-Lewis Breaks His Seven-Year Acting Hiatus in Ronan Day-Lewis’ Haunting Directorial Debut — In Theaters October 3rd
Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returns in a lyrical family-made drama where memory, exile, and fractured bloodlines collide against the dark history of the Irish Troubles.
🎥 “The Lost Bus” New Trailer: Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera Face California’s Deadliest Wildfire in Paul Greengrass’ Survival Thriller — In Select Theaters Now and Set to Stream on Apple TV+ October 3rd
Matthew McConaughey stars as real-life bus driver Kevin McKay, who braved the 2018 Camp Fire to save 22 kids with the help of a determined teacher, played by America Ferrera.
🎥 “Swimming Home” Trailer: Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis, and Ariane Labed Entangled in Sun-Drenched Surrealism in Justin Anderson’s Psychological Thriller — On VOD/Digital September 26th
Desire and dread take center stage when a mysterious young woman (Ariane Labed) disrupts a couple’s (Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis) fragile holiday retreat in this dream-like psychological thriller.
🎥 “Ozzy: No Escape From Now” Trailer: The Now-Late Rock Icon Faces Mortality and Music in Intimate New Documentary — Premieres October 7th on Paramount+
This deeply personal portrait chronicles Heavy Metal legend Ozzy Osbourne’s struggles with health and Parkinson’s while capturing his humor, resilience, and undying bond with music.
🎥 For more trailers, check out our latest ☰ “Trailer Blitz” post, covering a range of new indie and foreign movies coming out soon, click the link below:
📺 NEW TELEVISION TRAILERS:
In the wild, justice is the rarest prey.
📺 The Last Frontier — Trailer
(on Apple TV+ Oct. 10th)
The Last Frontier drops viewers into the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness, where a prison transport plane crash unleashes a horde of convicts into the wild. Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Winning Time) stars as Frank Remnick, the lone U.S. marshal forced to protect a remote town while hunting down escapees who may be part of something far more sinister than a simple accident.
Created by John Bokenkamp and Richard D’Ovidio, and featuring direction from stuntman-turned-action filmmaker Sam Hargrave (Extraction), the series promises bone-crunching action, high-stakes survival, and a creeping paranoia about who orchestrated the crash. Clarke leads a powerhouse ensemble including Dominic Cooper, Haley Bennett, Simone Kessell, Johnny Knoxville, Clifton Collins Jr., Dallas Goldtooth, Tait Blum, and Alfre Woodard.
With the Alaskan frontier as both setting and weapon, The Last Frontier pits law against lawlessness in a fight where the elements are just as deadly as the convicts.
Premieres Friday, October 10th on Apple TV+.
Some monsters aren’t born in the movies... they inspire them!
📺 Monster: The Ed Gein Story — Trailer
(On Netflix Oct. 3rd)
Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam trades biker leather for something far darker in Monster: The Ed Gein Story, the latest installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s hit Netflix true-crime anthology series. Hunnam embodies the infamous Wisconsin killer whose gruesome crimes—grave robbing, mutilation, and skinning his victims—laid the groundwork for horror icons like Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill. Laurie Metcalf co-stars as Gein’s domineering mother, the twisted force behind his unraveling.
Directed by Max Winkler and written by Brennan, the series doesn’t just revisit Gein’s farmhouse of horrors—it explores how his macabre legacy seeped into the DNA of cinema itself. Tom Hollander appears as Alfred Hitchcock, Olivia Williams as Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville, and Will Brill as cult horror filmmaker Tobe Hooper, tying Gein’s crimes directly to the creation of Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
With a cast that also includes Suzanna Son, Danielle Campbell, Addison Rae, Lesley Manville, Robin Weigert, and Vicky Krieps, this chilling drama blurs the line between true crime and the cultural nightmares it spawned.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story is set to premiere Friday, October 3rd on Netflix—just in time for a Halloween binge that will have you questioning where horror ends and history begins.
The world’s on edge... and so is the White House.
📺 The Diplomat: Season 3 — Trailer
(on Netflix Oct. 16th)
Keri Russell returns in The Diplomat: Season 3, once again delivering razor-sharp brilliance as U.S. Ambassador Kate Wyler. But this time, she’s not just putting out international fires—she’s facing a brand-new Oval Office nightmare. Allison Janney steps in as Vice President Grace Penn, suddenly elevated to President after a fatal heart attack strikes her predecessor. The kicker? Grace secretly orchestrated the very terrorist plot she now claims to be preventing.
With Rufus Sewell back as Kate’s dangerously charming husband Hal, and Bradley Whitford joining as the new first gentleman, Todd Penn (making for a mini West Wing reunion with Janney), the stakes couldn’t be higher... or messier. Betrayals, power grabs, and the threat of global war put Kate in the impossible position of trying to stop her own Commander-in-Chief before disaster spreads across the globe.
Created by Debora Cahn (The West Wing), The Diplomat: Season 3 premieres Thursday, October 16th on Netflix.
Workplace paranoia has never looked this ridiculous.
📺 The Chair Company — Trailer
(on HBO MAX Oct. 12th)
Comedian Tim Robinson returns to melt down in spectacular fashion with The Chair Company, a new HBO Max dark comedy series he co-created with Zach Kanin. Robinson stars as William Ronald Trosper, a hapless office drone whose embarrassing workplace incident snowballs into something far stranger: a possible corporate conspiracy... or maybe just his own spiraling brain. Either way, cubicle life has never seemed so hilariously sinister.
Reuniting with Kanin (Detroiters, I Think You Should Leave), Robinson brings his trademark absurdist humor to the drudgery of office politics, with comic maestro Adam McKay and filmmaker Andrew DeYoung (Friendship) executive producing. The ensemble cast includes Lake Bell, Sophia Lillis, Will Price, Joseph Tudisco, and Lou Diamond Phillips, all caught in the crossfire of Robinson’s bumbling comedy and creeping unease.
Packed with Robinson’s signature blend of meltdown mania and awkward tension, The Chair Company is set to turn every conference call into a crisis and every swivel chair into a potential threat.
The series is slated to premiere Sunday, October 12th on HBO MAX.
📺 additional TV trailers:
📺 “The Beast in Me” Teaser: Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys Team Up for a Dark Cat-and-Mouse Thriller Series from the Team Behind Homeland — Premieres November 13th on Netflix
Claire Danes plays a grief-stricken author obsessed with her enigmatic neighbor (Matthew Rhys), a real estate mogul tied to his wife’s disappearance, in Gabe Rotter’s chilling new Netflix series.
📺 “Outlander: Season 8” Teaser: Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan Face War, Secrets, and the End of an Era in STARZ’s Epic Finale — Premiering Early 2026
Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan lead the beloved series into its concluding season, where war follows the Frasers home and long-buried secrets threaten to tear their family apart.
📺 “The Iris Affair” U.K. Trailer: Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander Face Off in Neil Cross’s Reality-Bending Thriller Series — Premieres October 16th on Sky and NOW
Niamh Algar stars as a codebreaker who discovers a machine capable of altering reality, with Tom Hollander as the rival determined to claim it, in a stylish new series from Neil Crosss, the creator of Luther.
📺 “True Haunting” Trailer: Horror Maestro James Wan Brings Real Supernatural Nightmares to Life in New Supernatural Horror Docuseries — Premieres October 7th on Netflix
From James Wan, the filmmaker behind The Conjuring franchise, this chilling series blends documentary and cinematic horror to explore terrifying true stories of hauntings.
📺 “Victoria Beckham” Trailer: Spice Girl Turned Fashion Powerhouse Prepares for Paris Fashion Week in New Docuseries — Premieres October 9th on Netflix
From the creators of Beckham and the director of Becoming, the film takes viewers inside Spice Girl-turned-fashionista Victoria Beckham’s London studio as she balances family, fame, and the pressure of Paris Fashion Week.
📺 “The Sisters Grimm” Trailer: Ariel Winter and Leah Newman Voice Orphaned Sleuths in Apple TV+’s Fairy-Tale Mystery Series — Premiering October 3rd
Adapted from Michael Buckley’s bestselling novels, the animated series follows two sisters (Ariel Winter and Leah Newman) as they uncover a hidden town where fairy-tale legends walk among us, all while searching for their missing parents.