Inside trailer: Willem Dafoe plays a trapped thief in psychological thriller

Last Updated on November 21, 2022

Yesterday, Focus Features unveiled a trio of strange teaser posters for their upcoming psychological thriller Inside, posters that showed things like canned food, moldy fruit, and a pigeon instead of the film’s star Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man: No Way Home). Those posters seemed to imply that Inside is going to be an odd, quirky film – but now that a trailer for Inside has arrived online, it doesn’t appear to be as off-the-wall as the posters were. Instead, it looks like this thriller is going to be quite intense, carried by another terrific performance from Dafoe. You can watch the trailer in the embed above.

Focus Feature will be giving Inside a theatrical release in the U.S. and Canada on March 10, 2023.

Directed by Vasilis Katsoupis, who previously made the 2016 documentary My Friend Larry Gus, from a screenplay by Ben Hopkins (The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz), Inside tells the story of Nemo, an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn’t go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.

Dafoe is joined in the cast by Gene Bervoets (The Vanishing), Josia Krug (Commitment Phobia), and Eliza Stuyck (Vincent).

Giorgos Karnavas, Marcos Kantis, and Dries Phlypo produced Inside, with Katsoupis serving as executive producer alongside Jim Stark, Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Charles E. Breitkreuz, Martin Lehwald, Jean-Claude, Van Rijckeghem, and Stephen Kelliher.

Universal International is handling the distribution of Inside outside of the U.S. and Canada. Focus Features’ Kiska Higgs has described the movie as “thought-provoking” film”, saying it “explores an experience we’re all now familiar with – isolation – and explores it in a visually stunning way.”

What did you think of the Inside trailer? Does this look like a movie you’d want to see? Let us know by leaving a comment below.