“WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THERE?”
Article By Jeff Sanders
HIGH-RISE, Ben Wheatley’s new Soylent Greeny dystopian sociopolitical sci-fi film, based on the book by the guy who wrote the book that David Cronenberg made into a kinky and disturbing film, CRASH, just landed a new trailer. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, Wheatley has directed several cult genre favorites over the past 5 years; KILL LIST and SIGHTSEERS are both essential viewing for lovers of the sort (the sort where people, places and things die and you are left feeling like poops… but you also laugh). His new effort looks to be right on par.
Wheatley’s new film, which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival, stars Tom Hiddleston, who as of recently has been picking some interesting but intriguing roles. He plays a doctor who has been lured into living in a state-of-the-art high-rise tower, designed by the ever lurid and weird Jeremy Irons. The tower has it all, and there is no reason to ever want to live anywhere else… or leave.
There may be something else going on. And it looks like Hiddleston isn’t taking it well.
I am getting a Snowpiercer vibe, but instead of a train, it’s a tower, so it’s like if the train was turned sideways and you had up climb the rail cars. Only Tom Hiddleston isn’t poor, he’s on top. And he wants to paint something? And a man on a TV screen is talking to his brain. I think you should just watch the trailer in all its weird faux 1970’s glory.
HIGH-RISE is released March 18th, 2016 in the UK and we hope Nationwide soon thereafter.
