Scorsese goes Sam Raimi & WICKER MAN-ish with SHUTTER ISLAND trailer!

By Matt Holmes / June 23, 2011

My time on the internet has been so small lately that it's taken me the best part of a week to talk about the trailer for Shutter Island, the knock your balls off creepy B-movie esque trailer for Martin Scoresese's latest movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, which looks absurdly brilliant. I can't tell you how much I'm loving this feeling that is coming back to directors right now, the bug that caught Sam Raimi recently with his nostalgic and over the top fun Drag Me To Hell has hit Scorsese big time. This looks to be his most "out there" movie since Cape Fear. And Robert Richardson, a name most people won't know but whose cinematography you will have appreciated in Kill Bill, Casino and Scorsese's own The Aviator and Bringing Out the Dead... looks to be on another level right here. How gorgeous does this movie look? Like De Niro in years past, when DiCaprio teams up with Marty he is like a different actor and he looks great here. My favourite line of the trailer is when he is on the ship out there, doing the "for the criminally insane" line, which reminds me so much of what Peter Jackson did with King Kong - that old school B-movie Hollywood picture. Mark Ruffalo again does the Columbo routine he pulled off so well a few years back in Zodiac, and I love how the creepy Zodiac killer himself is a prison guard there. Ben Kingsley has absolutely no place in a Scorsese picture... and that's why it works so well. I love him here. He's basically playing Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man. And Jackie Earle Haley, Max Von Sydow... I really need to see this NOW! Rope of Silicon have the plot...

The film tells the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island€™s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

And we have the trailer...

SEE IT IN HD HERE!

Paramount will release the movie in October. I fear over how many times I will watch this trailer before then.