Coming to theaters this month is the sci-fi horror Nope (Aug. 11) by Oscar winner Jordan Peele (Escape - Get Out, Us), followed by the body horror Crimes of the future (Aug. 24) directed by David Cronenberg (Rabid, Brood, Scanners, The Fly). Also on the same day, the horror film debuts in theaters. Men By Alex Garland (Ex machina and Annihilation).
Film fact sheets accompanied by Italian posters and trailers follow.
AUGUST 11: Nope
Science fiction horror about alien invasion Nope arrives in Italian theaters Aug. 11 distributed by Universal Pictures. Produced, written and directed by Jordan Peele (Escape - Get Out, Us), Nope Is played by Daniel Kaluuya (Escape - Get Out).
The protagonists of the story are three residents of a small California town who become witnesses to an unexplained and terrifying discovery.
Plot: Oj and Em (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) are two brothers who, along with their father Otis Haywood Sr. (Keith David), run the family ranch. When the parent dies, the two inherit the property but, while the former tries to maintain his father's business, the latter dreams of success in Hollywood.
Soon, however, the Haywood brothers run into financial problems, and to make matters worse, some horses vanish into thin air, while the others begin to be violent and nervous.
Convinced that they are dealing with extraterrestrials, Em convinces OJ to install cameras on the ranch in hopes of figuring out what is happening, only to notice a strange cloud in the sky...
In the cast of Nope Keke Palmer (Scream), Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), Michael Wincott (The Crow), Barbie Ferreira and Brandon Perea are also there.
The Italian official trailer:
AUGUST 24: Crimes of the Future.
Written and directed by David Cronenberg (Rabid, Brood, Scanners, The Fly), the body horror Crimes of the Future will arrive in theaters on Aug. 24 with Lucky Red.
Crimes of the Future takes its title from his earlier 1970 film without being its remake and stars Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence, The Assassin's Promise), Léa Seydoux (Spectre, No time to die) and Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Underwater).
In Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg continues to explore man's terror in the face of the mutation of the flesh, involving not only the physical but also the psychological aspect.
Official synopsis: in an unspecified future, the disastrous effects of pollution and climate change have altered the bodies of human beings, now capable of implementing continuous mutations. Former surgeon Caprice (Léa Seydoux) harnesses her partner Saul Tenser's (Viggo Mortensen) ability to develop new organs to create artistic performances of surgical removal, in which the pair publicly display the internal metamorphosis of humans. These avant-garde performances attract the attention of Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator for the National Organ Registry, but also of a suspected subversive group whose goal is to take humanity to the next evolutionary stage.
The cast also includes Scott Speedman (Underworld), Don McKellar, Welket Bungué, Tanaya Beatty, Lihi Kornowski, Yorgos Karamichos, and Yorgos Pirpassopoulos.
The Italian official trailer:
AUGUST 24: Men
Also making its theatrical debut on Aug. 24 is Men, the violent and distressing horror film written and directed by Alex Garland, the director of Ex machina and Annihilation, as well as screenwriter of 28 days later and Sunshine.
Men stars British actor Rory Kinnear (Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die) and Jessie Buckley (Beast), an Irish actress nominated for an Oscar for The Dark Daughter (2021) by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Plot: following a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats to the beautiful English countryside to find inner peace. Someone or something in the surrounding woods, however, will begin to haunt her, plunging her into an endless nightmare populated by the saddest memories and darkest fears.
Completing the cast are Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin, Sarah Twomey, Zak Rothera-Oxley, and Sonoya Mizuno.
The Italian official trailer:
