After taking us on time-travel adventures in Timecrimes and exploring sci-fi comedy with Extraterrestrial, director Nacho Vigalondo‘s latest film takes a unique approach to the thriller territory. Open Windows follows Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey as the latter has been captured by a villain named Chord (Neil Maskell), and the film takes place entirely on a computer screen or various cameras.
We recently caught it at Fantasia, saying in our review, “One of the many films to open with the misdirection of a movie within a movie, Open Windows actually earns it, even if the effort it expends in doing so makes no effort in really separating the layers of cinema fantasy. Because while festival programming guides will like to label it as an update of the Hitchcock–De Palma voyeuristic thriller, Open Windows is, if anything, far more like a Feuillade serial: one cliff-hanger after another — which is perhaps why the film runs 100 minutes, instead of the usual gimmick film’s 80 — including criminal underworlds, wild plot twists, and shifting identities.”
The first U.S. trailer has now landed ahead of a fall debut, and one can see it below:
Oscar®-nominated writer-director Nacho Vigalondo (The ABCs of Death, Extraterrestrial, V/H/S Viral) creates an action-packed world of voyeurism and suspense in his thriller OPEN WINDOWS. Nick (Elijah Wood, Maniac, The Lord of the Rings) is excited to discover that he’s won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard (Sasha Grey, Would You Rather, The Girlfriend Experience). But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, her manager Chord (Neil Maskell, Wild Bill, Pusher) makes an offer he can’t refuse: the ability to view Jill secretly via computer. Nick begins watching the unknowing star on her webcam, not realizing that this decision will put both himself and Jill at risk as they enter a terrifying world of cat-and-mouse where nothing—and no one—are as they seem
Open Windows hits U.S. theaters on Nov. 7th and VOD on Oct. 2nd.