Now that, people, is how you cut a damn trailer together. Niche film director Ben Wheatley (A Field in England, Sightseers, Kill List) has chopped together this new teaser for his adaptation of JG Ballard's influential novel, High-Rise. It's a trippy minute and fifteen seconds that ably puts across the plot of the film - utopian everything-under-one-roof tower block gets dystopian real quick after a chain reaction of events. Check out one of the best trailers of the last ten years below: https://youtu.be/9dPp1PmNc5M This film looks insane, in the best way; the marriage of source material and director is clearly one made in heaven, as Wheatley is specifically known for his off-kilter visual stylings and penchant for both metaphor and ambiguity - elements which lend themselves well to the dreamlike (or is that nightmarish?) nature of Ballard's original text. Tom Hiddleston is obviously having the time of his life in this trailer, and might even ruffle some BAFTA feathers next year with his performance as Robert Laing - a doctor who resides in the titular High-Rise and succumbs to his darker impulses. Also starring in the film will be Luke Evans, Sienna Miller and Jeremy Irons. High-Rise is released in the UK on 18th March.
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