Focus Features will be giving writer/director Goran Stolevski’s You Won’t Be Alone a theatrical release on April 1st, and today a new trailer has arrived online to show us more of this supernatural horror film. The new trailer can be seen in the embed above, while the first trailer (which we saw back in December) is at the bottom of this article.
Our own Gaius Bolling gave You Won’t Be Alone a 9/10 review (read it at THIS LINK) when he caught a screening during the Sundance Film Festival in January, so we’re really looking forward to checking this one out.
Starring Noomi Rapace (Prometheus), You Won’t Be Alone is set “in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia” and follows
a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the young witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim’s shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power in order to understand what it means to be human.
Rapace is joined in the cast by Anamaria Marinca (The Girl with All the Gifts), Alice Englert (Ginger & Rosa), Carloto Cotta (Diamantino), Félix Maritaud (Knife + Heart), and Sara Klimoska (Kaymak). That’s quite a mix of nationalities; on this list we have actors from Sweden, Romania, Australia, Portugal, France, and Macedonia. The actors in the film deliver their lines in “an old Macedonian dialect”, so You Won’t Be Alone is drawing comparisons to The Witch due to the fact that both movies combine the presence of a witch with an old style of dialogue.
Gaius said that
You Won’t Be Alone may not appeal to the casual moviegoer or those just browsing for a cool horror flick to watch. The term “elevated horror” has been tossed around a lot lately, most recently in the latest Scream, and that’s what you’re going to find here. There is horror in the subtext and there are scenes of intense gore that will make horror aficionados happy but there is something much deeper running through You Won’t Be Alone and if you’re willing to give it a chance, you’ll be treated with a compelling piece of cinema.
You Won’t Be Alone was produced by Kristina Ceyton and Sam Jennings. This marks the feature directorial debut of Stolevski, who has years of short films on his résumé.
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