Holy shit. What did I just watch?
Last week, we told you we’d heard that Na Hong-jin’s Hope, which just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, was secretly a full-blown sci-fi creature feature. Up until now, the early clips and promotional images made it look like some grounded police thriller with zero indication that it was hiding anything this insane underneath the surface.
Turns out our tipster was completely right.
The first teaser trailer for Hope is absolute kitchen-sink filmmaking; it’s a chaotic mash-up of sci-fi, horror, action, creature-feature insanity, and apocalyptic spectacle all slammed together into one gigantic, unhinged fever dream. One second, it looks like a gritty detective thriller; the next, there’s an alien baby, a creature stalking people through the woods, a massive spaceship crash, giant Terminator 2-style artillery weapons, and a gigantic alien monster literally leaping out of the sky to attack someone on horseback.
It’s completely fucking nuts.
Critics coming out of Cannes have been equally blown away and baffled by what Na Hong-jin has pulled off. The Hollywood Reporter called the film “a crazy good time,” praising its “fresh take on sci-fi horror” and “thrilling action,” dubbing it an “instant cult classic.”
Not everybody is sold on the execution, though. Some reactions have criticized the CGI and overwhelming scale, with IndieWire calling out what it described as “some of the worst CGI since The Mummy Returns.” Others close to me have compared the film’s chaotic ambition to Southland Tales… messy, overstuffed, borderline incomprehensible at times, but still somehow an absolute blast to watch.
That tracks perfectly with this trailer, which makes the film look enormous, grimy, violent, weird, and completely unrestrained.
If the final film delivers on even half of the insanity packed into this teaser, Hope could end up being one of the wildest genre movies of the year.
Watch the trailer immediately.
Neon (Longlegs, Hokum) will release the latest genre offering from The Wailing director Na Hong-Jin later this year.
The film’s title comes from the location: In Hope Harbor, a remote village near the Demilitarized Zone, police outpost chief Bum-seok receives alarming news from locals that a tiger has appeared. As the village erupts into panic, Bum-seok is forced to confront a reality beyond belief.
Starring are Hwang Jung-min (The Wailing), Zo In-sung (Moving), Hoyeon (“Squid Game”), Michael Fassbender (The Killer), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), Taylor Russell (Bones and All), and Cameron Britton (“Mindhunter”).
Hope marks the first feature from Hong-jin since his excellent folk horror film, The Wailing.
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