New Trailers! They Will Kill You & The Rip
🎥 Zazie Beetz fights her way through a satanic nightmare, while Matt Damon and Ben Affleck test loyalty and greed under cartel fire!
🎥 “They Will Kill You” Red-Band Trailer: Zazie Beetz Fights to Survive a Night in a Satanic Apartment From Hell in This Grindhouse Horror Action-Thriller with Patricia Arquette, Heather Graham & Myha’la — In Theaters March 27th
We live in uncertain times. That’s for sure. But if you think finding a stable job is hard now, try doing it in a world where your place of employment requires, sometimes, a little more than a résumé and a good attitude—like proving you’re willing to survive a night of unadulterated, blood-splattering mayhem.
Zazie Beetz will be taking on this new year by the horns as she plays a woman not only fighting for her life against an onslaught of ferocious adversaries, but also doing a pretty damn good job at it in this new grindhouse-style horror thriller where every punch thrown, every blade sliced, and every body dropped feels like part of the job description. Mainly, because it is! And it’s a job that gives new meaning to the term “hazard pay.”
Produced by filmmaker Andy Muschietti (the IT horror franchise, The Flash) and his producing partner–slash–sister Barbara Muschietti, working under their newly minted banner Nocturna, They Will Kill You is a horror-action-comedy that drops Zazie Beetz (Joker, Deadpool, FX’s Atlanta) into a very bad building with even worse tenants. Here, she stars as a financially strapped woman who takes a housekeeping gig at the Virgil, a towering New York high-rise with a long, unsettling history of disappearances.
What she doesn’t know until it’s far too late is that the residents are part of a satanic cult—and she’s been handpicked as their next offering. The apartment building is essentially a temple to Satan, and every month the residents must provide a human sacrifice. Unbeknownst to her, she’s just clocked in for her first—and LAST—shift.
But there’s a surprise: this cleaning lady can clean house in more ways than one. She’s no helpless victim, and once the blood starts spilling, it becomes clear the tenants may have seriously underestimated who they just hired.
Directed and co-written by Kirill Sokolov, the cult Russian filmmaker behind the off-kilter 2018 horror comedy Why Don’t You Just Die!, the upcoming film plays like a lethal game of hide-and-seek staged inside a vertical death maze. Think the manic, crowd-pleasing chaos of Ready or Not smashed headfirst into the relentless, floor-by-floor carnage of The Raid. And once the trap snaps shut, Beetz’s character proves she’s ready to meet the moment—as revealed in this first red-band trailer, her brutal fighting skills come from a stint in prison… cage-match style.
Joining the pandemonium is Severance star Patricia Arquette as the icy head of the building’s co-op, while Harry Potter alum Tom Felton pops up as one of the cult’s devoted members. Heather Graham, Myha’la, and Paterson Joseph round out the lineup.
They Will Kill You is slated to open in theaters March 27th. So consider this your official warning: while clean apartments might be overrated, surviving the night with your head and limbs still attached is certainly not!
Interesting note: They Will Kill You will be released on the same weekend as Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, making it a hell of a double feature at the movies. Perhaps plan dinner early, ’cuz this one just might kill your appetite.
🎥 “The Rip” Trailer: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Face Greed, Loyalty, and Cartel Firepower in Joe Carnahan’s Gritty Miami Cop Thriller with Steven Yeun & Teyana Taylor — Premiering January 16th on Netflix
There’s a term that has popped up more and more in recent years to describe a certain strain of police thrillers that present law enforcement in an overwhelmingly heroic, justified, and morally uncomplicated light. It’s called “copaganda.” These are stories where cops are framed as the unquestioned good guys, their authority rarely challenged and their actions almost always validated.
But here’s the counterargument: most of the truly great cop films and cop TV shows (Serpico, Training Day, Heat, The Wire, The Shield, and the like) aren’t about moral certainty at all. They’re about how police officers are just as susceptible to corruption, ego, fear, and temptation as anyone else. In fact, the badge often puts them closer to those pressures than most. And the drama comes from that razor-thin line between upholding the law and abusing the power that comes with enforcing it.
The Rip, Netflix’s latest action-driven police thriller starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, appears to fall squarely into that question of who the good guys really are in a world where temptation is too large to ignore and the stakes are so high that the rules start feeling negotiable. The badge might have meant something once before, but now it feels less like a moral compass and more like a thin excuse to justify almost anything if the circumstances are dire enough.
Here, Damon and Affleck—famous best friends and Oscar-winning scribes of their breakout hit Good Will Hunting—are once again paired up onscreen as two Miami detectives leading a small narcotics task force that stumbles onto a life-altering score. While staring down a temptation that could easily change their lives for better or worse, Damon, Affleck, and their police unit uncover an unsuspecting stash house stuffed with massive amounts of cartel cash—millions of unmarked dollars sitting there, daring them to decide just how much that badge is really worth.
But as protocol demands they count the cash on-site, paranoia creeps in, loyalties fracture, and a joke about skimming the money turns into something far more dangerous. Inside the house, trust erodes. Outside, word leaks fast. And the cartel doesn’t miss a beat. Soon, Damon, Affleck, and their team (played by Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, and Catalina Sandino Moreno) find themselves trapped between a heavily armed enemy that wants its money back and the stark realization that when it comes to free money, trust is the first thing thrown out the window—even among those wearing badges.
They say money is the root of all evil. But in the right room, at the wrong moment, it becomes the fastest way to expose who your friends really are… and who you can trust with your life. And the sad truth is, the answer might be no one.
Inspired by true events, The Rip marks a return to form for filmmaker Joe Carnahan, best known for hard-edged action thrillers like Narc, Copshop, and The Grey. Carnahan reteams with Affleck following their cult action romp Smokin’ Aces, while Damon and Affleck also serve as producers under their Artists Equity banner.
Co-starring Sasha Calle, Kyle Chandler, Scott Adkins, and Néstor Carbonell, The Rip is set to premiere exclusively on Netflix next Friday, January 16th.
