The low-key king of modern survival horror, Alexandre Aja — who has made movies like Slow march, Oxygenand The hills have eyes – is back with a new movie starring Halle Berry. The first trailer for Never let it go released on Thursday, and the film already looks like a terrifying addition to Aja’s impressive canon of people trying to survive the very bad things that happen to them.
Never let it go stars Berry as the mother of two twin boys. The whole family lives in the woods, far off the grid, with Berry insisting that they must stay safe from the evil spirits that surround their cabin. One day, however, one of the boys begins to wonder if these spirits are real and sets out to discover the truth, only to find himself stranded in the woods, with his mother desperately trying to save him.
The trailer looks like an M. Night Shyamalan mash-up The village and John Krasinski A quiet place, with all the tension that the combination implies. Berry’s character leads her children into the woods, with a rope tying them all together so no one gets lost, making for a hauntingly beautiful image, and that’s not including the strange hands reaching out to grab the characters every now and then.
Along with Berry, the film will also star Anthony B. Jenkins and Percy Daggs IV as her two sons, as well as Matthew Kevin Anderson as “The Stranger” and Stephanie Lavigne, whose character is simply called “The Evil “.
Never let it go is set to hit theaters on September 27.
