The latest trailer for Olivia Wilde’s new film Don’t Worry Darling has dropped on the internet – and it looks more disturbing than we could have imagined.
Harry Styles and Florence Pugh play married couple Jack and Alice, who move to an experimental community in the Californian desert in the 1950s.
However, when Jack starts working for a company called the Victory Project, which is promising to “change the world,” Alice becomes suspicious of his new friends and their dream lifestyle and sets out to find the truth.
In the trailer, this dynamic is clearly on display, as it starts with the pair canoodling and Alice trying to convince Jack to stay at home instead of going to work.
However, from the start it’s clear that something is wrong with the idyllic lifestyle. While Jack works, Alice stays home and does the housework, and an automated voice says in voiceover that the security level is yellow, and: “All residents safe and accounted for.”
Things quickly spiral into horror from there, with Alice seemingly plunged into a living nightmare, acting irrationally and experiencing what seem to be hallucinations, where the walls of her house close in around her and she finds herself drowning.
Not that everybody agrees.
“Frank has created something truly special,” Gemma Chan’s character tells a group of residents at a social get-together. “What he’s created out here, it’s a different way, a better way.”
We also see glimpses of Chris Pine as Frank himself, asking residents: “What is the enemy of progress?”
“Chaos,” they respond.
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Later, at a dinner, he tells Alice: “I’ve been waiting for someone like you. Someone to challenge me.”
Eagle-eyed fans will also get a glimpse of Styles’ girlfriend Wilde, who plays the role of fellow resident Mary and who directed the film.
“The one thing they ask of us is to stay here, where it’s safe,” she tells Pugh’s character – though in a later scene, she also tells her to run.
Wilde and Styles met on set last autumn and were romantically linked a few months later after they were photographed attending a wedding together in January.
At a recent talk at Cinema Con, the director revealed that her inspirations for the film had been psychological thrillers like Inception and The Matrix and called Styles’s performance “a revelation.”
"I want you to imagine a life where you have everything you could want," she said. "Not just material things… but true love and friendship. What would it take for you to give up that perfect life? Are you willing to dismantle the system that’s designed to serve the world?"
Fans were extremely excited for the new trailer.
“I can already tell this movie is going to be special,” one wrote on Twitter, while another was clear: “I really dont get what this movie is about but I’m still going to watch it just to see harry”.
Each to their own: roll on September.
