The trailer for this fall's Dream House, starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts, hit the Internet today and we'll get to it in a minute, I swear. But let's take a second to talk about the real news here — did you know that Craig and Weisz just got married? I didn't. How did I miss this?
Oh yeah, Dream House. This psycho-thriller comes to us from acclaimed Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan, which is a bit surprising. Sheridan usually deals in complicated sociopolitical family dramas (In America, Brothers, In the Name of the Father), so a suspenseful horror flick seems unexpected. But now that I think about it, maybe it's not.
Dream House is about a happily married family man who discovers he's not really a happily married family man because his happy family was murdered, man, and he's crazy. So, though this film appears to be a left turn, in truth it just subtracts one adjective from Sheridan's usual genre equation: "complicated sociopolitical family drama" becomes "complicated family drama." See? It's simple math.
Anyway, the trailer looks gorgeous — sumptuous visuals, fluid camera moves, the stunning Watts and Weisz, a shot of the well-muscled Craig wearing nothing but a pair of tight jeans. Kind of makes you wish you didn't have to wait until September 30 to see it, huh? I just hope there's more to the plot than the trailer lets on.
Oh, and if you think I should've added SPOILER ALERT before the synopsis above, you're wrong. The clip embedded below reveals all of that information, and maybe more I didn't catch. Hey, I didn't know Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz were married, so who knows what else I missed.
Am I the only person who will only watch about 30 seconds of a trailer these days? Especially of a horror movie where you know that every plot beat, including the twist, will be revealed.
It fucking sucks but they keep doing it. The last time I got fooled into watching a complete trailer and regretting it was SHUTTER ISLAND. Now I don't trust anyone.
Also, I heard that this underwent extensive re-shoots because originally Craig had a moustache and the mouth-breathers in the test audiences thought he looked gay. Or something like that.
Am I the only person who will only watch about 30 seconds of a trailer these days? Especially of a horror movie where you know that every plot beat, including the twist, will be revealed.
It fucking sucks but they keep doing it. The last time I got fooled into watching a complete trailer and regretting it was SHUTTER ISLAND. Now I don't trust anyone.
Yeah, I really do hope there's another bigger twist not revealed here. If not, there's not much point to paying $10 to see it.
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The trailer for this fall's Dream House, starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts, hit the Internet today and we'll get to it in a minute, I swear. But let's take a second to talk about the real news here — did you know that 
"A shot of the well-muscled Craig wearing nothing but a pair of tight jeans"
Cha-Ching, that's two tickets sold, one for me, one for my sister:) We're Bond fans...