Here’s our roundup of movie trailers that have hit the web since the last Trailer Tuesday. Watch these sneak peeks of films — mainstream, indie and queer (if we’re lucky) — coming soon (or recently premiered) to theaters or a streaming platform near you.
Insidious: Out of the Further
The use of “out” in this and the tagline “Evil found a way out” could only make us hope for a queer-coded horror film. But instead, Amelia Eve stars as Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in who discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe. When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn’t just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world. Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.
Exclusively in theaters Aug. 26.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
The latest installment in the series will revisit the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.
In theater Nov. 26.
The Devil Wears Prada 2
No doubt this has been on many gaydars already but with this past week’s final trailer release, we had to bump this back up on your list. In theaters May 1.
Scared to Death
In this horror-comedy, Jasper, a young opportunistic film-maker/intern in Hollywood, seizes his chance to be a ʻrealʼ director when he presents to his boss, indie-maverick film director Max Wolfe, the free use of an old haunted house and a professional medium to run a séance. Max, currently in pre-production for a film about the same subject, steals the idea from Jasper and presents it to the cast and crew as her own. The crew and actors descend upon the old mansion and once the séance begins, the crew, one by one, are literally scared to death. Streaming on May 5.
ICYMI: Night in West Texas
This queer documentary came out in November to a limited release outside of Dallas. The film takes place 40 years after a gay apache man is framed for the brutal murder of a closeted Catholic priest. A police chief uncovers long-buried evidence that shakes up the small, oil-rich west Texas town that imprisoned him.
In 1981, Father Patrick Ryan, a closeted Catholic priest, was found murdered in a seedy motel in a West Texas boomtown. The crime scene suggested a brutal act of “overkill.” A year later, a 23-year- old out-of-work oil engineer, James Harry Reyos, who was the last person seen with the victim, was charged with the priest’s murder. James was convicted to a 38-year sentence, despite the fact that he was out of the state at the time of the crime.
Law enforcement in the oil-rich town of Odessa, Texas, knew they were targeting an innocent man, but James was seen as a “throwdown character:” he was closeted and Native American, two characteristics that the prosecution used to exploit rampant homophobia and racism locally.
Under a new Odessa Police Department, Chief Mike Gerke, reopened Reyos’ case when his daughter-in-law, a true-crime podcast fan, raised questions about the conviction after listening to an episode of Crime Junkie. Gerke’s re-investigation would uncover a massive oversight.
–Rich Lopez