High Rise 1

While we’re still waiting on a U.S. release for  Ben Wheatley‘s adaptation of J.G. Ballard‘s 1975 dystopian novel High-Rise, those in the U.K. will get it come March. Ahead of the release, we now have another new trailer showing offthe story of a doctor, played by Tom Hiddleston, who moves into a luxury apartment complex that is cut off from the rest of society. We named it one of the best films of TIFF, and this evocative trailer should be enough to sell those that are curious.

We said in our review, “As soon as the voice of Tom Hiddleston‘s Dr. Robert Laing was heard speaking narration above his weathered and crazed visage manically moving from cluttered, dirty room to darkened feverish corner, my mind started racing. Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas popped into my consciousness and then his Brazil, after a quick title card shoves us back in time to watch as Laing enters his new concrete behemoth of a housing structure, oppressively standing above a vast and still parking lot. Add the clinical precision of Stanley Kubrick dolly shots and the chaotic, linear social ladder climb of Snowpiercer with a bitingly satirical wit replacing the high-octane action and you come close to describing the masterpiece that is Ben Wheatley‘s High-Rise.”

Check out the trailer below along with a new poster.

High Rise poster

High-Rise opens in the UK on March 18th and sometime next year in the U.S.

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