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We Need To Talk About Kevin Trailer: I'd Like To Thank You For Preying On My Darkest Fear

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (28)

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I promise that I’m not gonna spend the next six months blabbing about the fact that we’re spawning a new, likely eviler TK next year. But that said, films like We Need To Talk About Kevin touch on some of the major fears that parents and parents-to-be have — that you’ll be completely unable to relate to your child, and worse, that your child will develop into something totally alien, and quite possibly something awful. I don’t mean that it’ll grow horns and wings and devour human flesh, but that it’ll become something totally unlikable and unknowable, and even something terrible.

We’ve shown a few clips from the film in the past few months, and an international trailer that debuted in August. This is the domestic one, and it’s a decidedly more impressive trailer. The film has been getting rave reviews on the festival circuit, with folks saying that John C. Reilly is excellent in it, that newcomer Ezra Miller is fantastic, and that Tilda Swinton is absolutely phenomenal, possibly Oscar-worthy. But the film is anything but comfortable, and the juxtaposition of Buddy Holly’s “Every Day” makes it even more jarring.

Take a look:

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Comments

This looks incredibly creepy. I...really want to watch. And I've been hoping John C Riley would get a good part in something. I liked him in Chicago.

Posted by: Candee at November 7, 2011 11:07 AM

In.

Posted by: , at November 7, 2011 11:21 AM

I'm going to watch it, and love it, then question every decision that I've ever made as a parent.

Posted by: admin at November 7, 2011 11:21 AM

Ezra Miller was already pretty creepy in City Island. Looks like he'll outdo himself here.

Posted by: THRILLHO at November 7, 2011 11:31 AM

Nope, still not going to see it. I'm already a worrier. My fire needs no further fuel than my son's mere existence.

Posted by: Captain Tuttle at November 7, 2011 11:45 AM

This book. This effing book. Ugh. The movie? As f#cking if.

Posted by: klingonfree at November 7, 2011 11:54 AM

//head bowed, fist raised overhead in solidarity with Captain Tuttle//

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 7, 2011 12:00 PM

Saw this a couple of days ago at the VA Film Festival. Really great, but also really unsettling. Tilda Swinton is EXCELLENT, though I thought John C. Reilly's character was not well developed. I love him as an actor so I was slightly disappointed when his role wasn't more meaty.
I highly recommend going to see it.
...Unless you're an expecting parent. Then this film will terrify you.

Posted by: gee. ay. at November 7, 2011 12:01 PM

I've been told the book was hideously boring, by someone who should, based on previous tastes, have loved it.

But this just looks INCREDIBLE and makes me want to give the book a go.

Posted by: Nadine at November 7, 2011 12:06 PM

I read this book when it came out in 2003. I was in my late thirties at the time and it was literally "shit or get off the pot" time in terms of reproduction. Let's just say this book did not send me rushing to the fertility clinic.

Posted by: PaddyDog at November 7, 2011 12:11 PM

I caught this at Telluride this year and it is incredibly beautiful and immensely unsettling all at the same time. And you're right, @Nadine, the book is shiite, but Lynne Ramsay might just be a genius at adaptation (she has worked on this for years). SWINTON is magnificent, and Reilly's character is quite undeveloped, but for good reason (I think). Visually stunning too--Ramsay has a background in photography and it definitely shows. I highly recommend it (but I neither want nor have children, so there's that).

Posted by: couch and pants at November 7, 2011 12:15 PM

Complete and utter chills throughout most of that trailer. Can't wait to see it.

Posted by: prairiegirl at November 7, 2011 12:25 PM

Every time I think of Swinton I think of the title to that movie Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Posted by: John W at November 7, 2011 12:42 PM

It looks like Elephant if Elephant had actual characters. Not that Elephant is a bad film by any stretch of the imagination. This just seems more engaging than voyeuristic.

Posted by: Robert at November 7, 2011 12:50 PM

Does Ezra Miller remind anyone else of Aubrey Plaza? Just a thought.

Posted by: Caspar at November 7, 2011 2:03 PM

Conan O'brien in the role of a lifetime.

Na, can't wait. Actually looks really good.

Posted by: googergieger at November 7, 2011 2:37 PM

Ezra Miller is probably the only person in the world who can out-creep Tilda Swinton. Perfect casting. They are both gloriously creepy and look alike!
Looks interesting but I don't think I'll watch.

Posted by: severine at November 7, 2011 2:41 PM

//head bowed, fist raised overhead in solidarity with Captain Tuttle and Mrs. Julien //

Posted by: karen at November 7, 2011 2:59 PM

I've got goosebumps.

Posted by: LaRhue at November 7, 2011 3:46 PM

Nature vs Nurture, huh. It's okay. I don't need to watch a film that may just feed my fears about any of the children I teach being potential sociopaths. I already have a nagging feeling that some of them are. It's the eyes. They're like a doll's eyes.

Posted by: Four Eyes at November 7, 2011 6:25 PM

Oh wonderful...I get to see this trailer literally the day the Mr. and I decided it might be time to spawn, after years of me putting it off.

Good think I obsessively analyze anything that might be a sign in my life when making important decisions.

Posted by: TheEmpress at November 7, 2011 6:33 PM

This is an excellent film, it's been out in the UK for a few weeks. Lynne Ramsay is one of the most intelligent directors around, three films and three absolute triumphs, she was in line to direct Lovely Bones, and would have made it a much better film than Jackson did no doubt.

Hopefully this film gets her some recognition stateside, it's better directed than the Hurt Locker so it'd be a travesty if she doesn't get an Oscar nod.

Posted by: Neil at November 7, 2011 8:39 PM

I'll be seeing this one. The trailer reminds me of another movie I loved, Home Movie, with Adrian Pasdar and Cady McClain as a minister and his psychologist wife who start to realize their children aren't quite normal. It takes place as a series of home movies shot around major holidays, with events getting darker and darker with the passage of time. Definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it; the last scene in the film is one of the creepiest things I've ever watched.

Posted by: Craig at November 7, 2011 9:33 PM

This looks awesome, I can't wait. The problem will be convincing someone to go with me.

Posted by: Addicct at November 7, 2011 9:36 PM

I just want to know why there is three kids?

Posted by: Samantha at November 7, 2011 11:00 PM

Samantha, this looks to me like a publicity shot with all of the actors who play Kevin at his various ages. Unless there's some weird dream like sequence in the movie where she is confronted with all of them.

Posted by: Sheri at November 7, 2011 11:40 PM

I can't... I'm dying to see this but haven't even been able to make it through the book. I just spent 20 minutes trying to explain the whole thing to my son (who's 20).

Posted by: Az at November 7, 2011 11:53 PM

Sorry, I've already seen The Good Son.

Posted by: anon at November 8, 2011 10:39 PM