Ahead of its Cannes premiere, Her Private Hell, Nicolas Winding Refn's first full feature following 2016's The Neon Demon, gets its first teaser today that makes good on the film's promise of being full of glitter, sex and violence. Check it out:
Releasing in theaters on July 24 via NEON, Her Private Hell stars burgeoning scream queen Sophie Thatcher (Heretic, Companion) as a woman searching for her father as a strange mist engulfs their futuristic metropolis and unleashes an elusive, deadly presence.
Also starring Charles Melton (May December, Warfare), Kristine Froseth (The First Lady), Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms), Dougray Scott (Irvine Welsh’s Crime), Diego Calva (Babylon), Aoi Yamada (Perfect Days), Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool & Wolverine), and Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car), the Tokyo-shot Her Private Hell also follows a story in which a group of women about to make a Barbarella style sci-fi movie are hunted by a mysterious slasher known as Leather Man. Basically, whatever's happening in Her Private Hell, sign us up.
Her Private Hell was scored by Italian composer and frequent Brian De Palma collaborator Pino Donaggio (Carrie, The Howling, Seed of Chucky), which Deadline says “transports one back to the thrillers of the 1960s”. Although, per the same chat with Deadline, Refn's inspirations for Her Private Hell are much more unconventional:
Three years ago, I died, and I was dead for 20 minutes. When you’re told that you’re maybe going to die within two weeks, a lot of things go through your mind: You’re afraid, angry, frustrated, sad, you lash out. But then, I realized that I’d been given a gift, that if I could come back, I was going to be given a second chance. Most people don’t get that. And I was going to be young enough to live for at least another 25 years.
When I did come back alive, thank god, I was like, I had to start all over again with everything, but this time, I had 30 years of knowledge. You completely have to start over again with everything; moving your legs, arms, stuff like that. And I saw that I wanted to make movies again, the same way I’d wanted to make movies when I was young, but I also had a very specific mantra, which was: I will make things that come to me instinctively.
Her Private Hell hits theaters on July 24.
