I'm not going to get into whether or not psychological thrillers count as horror – are you signed up for our newsletter? You should be! Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr. has a great essay coming tomorrow that's relevant to this topic – but I will say that the new trailer for Joe Wright's The Woman in the Window, starring the always-terrific Amy Adams, is tense as hell:
Synopsis:
Anna Fox (Amy Adams) is an agoraphobic child psychologist who finds herself keeping tabs on the picture perfect family across the street through the windows of her New York City brownstone. Her life is turned upside down when she inadvertently witnesses a brutal crime. Based on the gripping, best-selling novel and adapted by Tracy Letts, shocking secrets are revealed and nothing and no one are what they seem in this suspenseful psychological thriller starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Fred Hechinger, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore
The Netflix film was originally slated to hit in October 2019, but it's been delayed ever since, and not for the usual COVID reasons. Reshoots thanks to poorly received test screenings, as well as plenty of controversy regarding the author of the film's source material and Scott Rudin, one of its producers, have all haunted this particular production. I've read the book and it's a disorienting but riveting read, and Adams is stellar casting, as are Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore and Jennifer Jason Leigh, who's been showing the psych-thriller subgenre how it's done since 1988. So it's certainly worth giving this film a shot – it could use our patience after all of its pre-release ups and downs.
The Woman in the Window hits Netflix on May 14.
