Trailer for Deepwater Horizon builds up the tension

March 23rd 2016, 3:43pm

Last Updated on July 31, 2021

If you want to see the mark of a phenomenal trailer, then be sure to click Play at the end of this article and watch the first one for Peter Berg‘s DEEPWATER HORIZON.

Based on the true story of the offshore drilling rig of the same name that exploded and set forth the greatest oil spill in U.S. history, Peter Berg‘s film already has me on edge. This trailer builds up the tension ever so carefully, intercutting between two very different settings that, when juxtaposed against each other, work so well in tandem. The quaintness of home laid out against the rough situation to come on the job leaves you breathless, and, even with the information out there about what happened on this rig, for the film to make it feel dramatic and leave you uncertain as to what will transpire next… that’s something special right there.