One of many greatest films of 2024 wasn’t present in theaters, however on Netflix, with Jaume Collet-Sera scoring probably the most important success of his profession with the high-stakes airport thriller Carry-On. The Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman flick exploded onto Netflix’s all-time High 10 checklist, instantly sparking requires a sequel, although it doubtless gained’t occur. Subsequent finest state of affairs: we now have the trailer for Collet-Sera’s subsequent effort hitting the 2025 film schedule, and it’s a totally totally different type of stressball.
Reuniting the director with Carry-On co-star Danielle Deadwyler, The Girl within the Yard is considered one of a number of upcoming horror films from Blumhouse Productions and Common Footage, and it appears to be like about as harrowing as a film with such a direct title might be. Try the primary trailer beneath!
The Girl within the Yard stars Deadwyler as Ramona, a widow who continues to be grieving the dying of her husband, who was killed in a automotive accident that additionally injured Ramona herself. Now all of a sudden a single mom, Ramona has to deal with each her accidents and taking good care of each their 14-year outdated daughter (Peyton Jackson) and their 6-year-old daughter (Estella Kahiha). And simply when it looks like the strain couldn’t construct any additional…the titular lady makes her first look.
At first, Ramona isn’t too shocked, and believes the lady who appeared in her yard is sick or misplaced, however it doesn’t take too lengthy for the matriarch to comprehend that she’s coping with one thing exterior of her scope of understanding. It’s unclear if she talks past uttering the seeming risk from the trailer — “At the moment’s the day,” — however it wouldn’t take far more than that to make me wish to transfer to the opposite aspect of the planet.
The titular lady is portrayed by Okwui Okpokwasili, whose current style efforts additionally embrace The Exorcist: Believer, during which she portrayed Physician Beehibe, in addition to Agatha All Alongside, the place the actress additionally coated her face in veils as one of many mysterious Salem Seven in pursuit of Kathryn Hahn’s witch. Although she doesn’t get all that a lot to do, Okpokwasili is certainly creepy as all hell whereas smiling beneath her protecting and holding out her bloody arms. The place’d that blood come from? Are her arms ever dry, or do they only keep bloody whereas she’s sitting on the market?
The movie additionally stars the at all times pleasing Russell Hornsby as Ramona’s late husband, whose solely second within the trailer teases his vehicular dying. Sucks to not have a stable actor like that in additional of the movie, however hopefully Deadwyler’s efficiency is intense sufficient to make Hornsby’s absense much less noteworthy.
The Girl within the Yard is the most recent horror effort from the favored director, whose first movie was 2005’s Home of Wax remake. He additionally helmed 2009’s Orphan and 2016’s The Shallows, amongst extra simple motion movies like Unknown, Non-Cease and Run All Night time. I do not count on to see Liam Neeson present up as “The Vengeful Irish Man within the Yard,” however will not be too stunned.
Whereas Jaume Collet-Sera might not have something hitting Netflix’s 2025 film premieres with fairly the identical brute power as Carry-On did, we are able to certainly look ahead to freaky ass yard individuals making life tense when it hits theaters on Friday, March 28.