{"id":862424,"date":"2026-08-20T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862424\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:54:09","slug":"the-creepy-never-after-dark-trailer-might-keep-you-up-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862424\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creepy ‘Never After Dark’ Trailer Might Keep You Up at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

A medium<\/a> who\u2019s accustomed to dealing with the strange and unusual realizes she\u2019s in way over her head when she\u2019s hired to purge a stubborn spirit from an isolated home. But her nightmare looks like it will reap riches for scary-movie fans, if Never After Dark\u2018s eerie, stylish first trailer\u2014full of praise from the likes of Stephen King<\/a> and Black Phone director Scott Derrickson<\/a>\u2014is anything to go by.<\/p>\n

Never After Dark hits theaters next month after racking up film-festival prizes, including the SXSW Midnighter Audience Award and a Grand Jury Prize at the Overlook Film Festival. It stars Moeka Hoshi (Shogun)\u00a0as well as Kento Kaku, Kurumi Inagaki, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bokuz\u014d Masana, and Tae Kimura.<\/p>\n

Hoshi plays \u201cAiri, a wandering medium who spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living,\u201d according to the film\u2019s official synopsis. \u201cSummoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi\u2019s experience. As she digs deeper into the house\u2019s past, a secret comes to light\u2014and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force. For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural but the living.\u201d<\/p>\n

Never After Dark was directed and written by Dave Boyle. It hits theaters September 25\u2014just in time to get Halloween season started off right.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A medium who\u2019s accustomed to dealing with the strange and unusual realizes she\u2019s in way over her head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,432061],"class_list":["post-862424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-never-after-dark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}