Hunter Schafer is in her ultimate lady period within the trailer for movie Cuckoo. (YouTube/Rotten Tomatoes Trailers)
Euphoria star Hunter Schafer comes alive within the bloody and brutal trailer for her first function movie, the queer, psychological horror Cuckoo.
The 25-year-old actress stars in Tilman Singer’s “bonkers” new movie as Gretchen, a teenage lady who reluctantly strikes to a mountainous resort in Germany, along with her estranged father Luis (Marton Csokas), his second spouse Beth (Jessica Henwick), and her half-sister Alma (Mila Lieu).
Whereas Gretchen seems unsettled as quickly because the household transfer to the resort, issues go from bizarre to horrifying actual fast. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire star Dan Stevens is the resort’s whacky proprietor and Gretchen’s father’s boss, Mr. König, who appears unfazed by the unusual goings-ons.
Earlier than lengthy, Gretchen seems haunted by an inexplicable blonde girl – or entity – who stalks her as she rides her bike, and leaves her blood-spattered and bandaged.
In fact, her distant household don’t purchase her aspect of occasions, and Gretchen makes an attempt to flee with fellow resort resident Ed (Pirates of the Caribbean actress Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey), till the paranormal blonde girl places paid to that concept.
Within the newly launched, two-and-a-half minute Cuckoo trailer, followers of Starvation Video games star Schafer get to see her like by no means earlier than – enduring much more trauma than her Euphoria character Jules Vaughn, and that’s saying one thing.
She suffers by quite a few basic horror tropes, together with being left alone in an in any other case desolate constructing within the resort, and a heart-pounding panic when the lights round her flicker unsuspectingly.
With a damaged arm and a potential head trauma, she’s left to fend for herself from no matter spooky spirit is following her.
Then, she discovers a “surprising secret” about her household that flips her world even additional on its head.
For sure, Hunter Schafer followers are effectively and actually seated.
“Hunter within the lead position, Dan Stevens being a creepy freaky freak as soon as extra, I can not wait. I WILL be there,” wrote one fan on social media.
“Right here for the Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens partnership I by no means knew I wanted,” shared one other.
Even The Bear actress Ayo Edebiri has shared her pleasure for the movie, which is due for launch in US cinemas on 9 August.
“I’m seated. The theatre workers are scared and asking me to go away as a result of it’s ‘not August but’ however I’m just too seated,” she commented on the trailer.
Earlier this week, Schafer revealed that she has been requested to star in “tons of trans roles” however has turned them down as she merely doesn’t “wish to do them”.
“I labored so arduous to get to the place I’m, previous these actually arduous factors in my transition, and now I simply wish to be a lady and eventually transfer on,” she instructed GQ.
“I’ve gotten provided tons of trans roles, and I simply don’t wish to do it. I don’t wish to speak about it.”
“I do know for a proven fact that I’m probably the most well-known trans folks in media proper now, and I do really feel a way of accountability, and perhaps a bit of little bit of guilt, for not being extra of a spokesperson,” she added.