Dangerous Animals (2025) trailer released!

Roughly 24 hours ago the trailer for upcoming shark-killer-thriller "Dangerous Animals", directed by Sean Byrne, was uploaded to YouTube.

After a roughly 1 minute long teaser was released about a month ago, now there's the official trailer. It's a little more than 2 minutes long, with countless edits, and flashing imagery. Does it give away too much? There are a couple of frames from a lot of different scenes in it - it remains to be seen how much more surprises, and how much suspense the full movie can offer.

Starring Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, "Dangerous Animals" is set to be released on June 6th 2025 in the US.

Watch "Dangerous Animals" (2025) trailer:

video source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvwfHPtjO18
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Caligula "The Ultimate Cut" (1979/2024) - a good movie, finally?

The old, new "Caligula" is about to be released, containing previously unseen footage. Does the "ultimate cut" turn the infamous trainwreck that is the 1979 version finally into a transgressive masterpiece?

There were several conflicting goals during production of the original version, and it ended up as a mess with some porn scenes. Director Tinto Brass, and part of the cast distanced themselves from the result, and tried to have their names removed from it.

Reconstructed by Thomas Negovan, this new 2024 version of Caligula aims to stay close to the original, unaltered script, written by Gore Vidal. It does not contain scenes that were added after director Tinto Brass had finished his work, and is, according to the trailer, "created entirely from unseen footage".

No director is listed in the credits - Tinto Brass is listed as "principal photography". Feedback from the initial creators of the original version remains limited so far. According to sources, Brass has distanced himself from the new "ultimate cut", which might be unnecessary, but also makes some sense. While Caligula actor Malcom McDowell has shown big appreciation, now that his enthusiastic performance gets considerably more screen time.

It remains to be seen if the new "Caligula" has captured the spirit of the Gore Vidal script, or has a spirit of its own. In any case, the trailer already shows some fantastic new material, making it highly interesting for the connoisseur and the cineaste. And maybe it's even a really good movie. 

It's out pretty much right... now.

Caligula The Ultimate Cut final international preview trailer 2024:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ko5Ihi28Dk

Thomas Negovan

Original 1979 trailer:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WACkBTh0W6w
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Additional sources:

Mark Kermode reviews Caligula: The Ultimate Cut - Kermode and Mayo's Take
published Aug 9, 2024

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula..._The_Untold_Story (Caligula 2) 

NETFLIX's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" 2022 (trailer)

Every once in a while a new "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" movie hits theatres. 

Here's the latest, NETFLIX's 2022 take on the subject matter, directed by David Blue Garcia, starring Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, and Mark Burnham.

Well, judging from the trailer, it certainly has style. Comic elements - as opposed to the subtle grotesqueness of the original movie - have crept into "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" since part two of the franchise, and this one is no exception. But overall it seems to get the tone and mood quite right, staying comparably close to the original in that regard.

But then this is of course just a trailer - the full movie might turn out to be quite a different experience. 

Watch "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" 2022 trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcI6SFiK_yk

What do you think? Is it any good? Leave a comment below!

Additional sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_(2022_film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11755740/