{"id":29444,"date":"2025-09-18T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29444\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:39:13","slug":"vicious-trailer-traps-dakota-fanning-in-a-visceral-mystery-box-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29444\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Vicious&#8217; Trailer Traps Dakota Fanning in a Visceral Mystery Box Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dakota Fanning finds herself caught in a harrowing nightmare in the new trailer for Vicious, the latest from <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3628426\/fantasia-review-the-dark-and-the-wicked-chilling-descent-nihilistic-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Dark and the Wicked<\/a> and The Strangers director Bryan Bertino.<\/p>\n<p>Vicious\u00a0will be released on Paramount+ and Digital on\u00a0October 10\u00a0following its world premiere at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3893230\/fantastic-fest-2025s-massive-lineup-includes-black-phone-2-shelby-oaks-bryan-bertinos-vicious-and-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fantastic Fest<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>In the nightmarish new film, \u201cwhen Polly (Fanning) receives a mysterious Box from an unexpected late-night visitor, it comes with a simple instruction: place three things inside: something you need, something you hate, and something you love. What begins as a strange ritual quickly unravels into a waking nightmare. Trapped in a terrifying world where reality bends and memory betrays, Polly must navigate a series of impossible choices. As time slips away, she\u2019s forced to confront the darkness not just around her, but within her\u2014before it consumes everything and everyone she\u2019s ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott,\u00a0and Emily Mitchell also star.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the trailer below, which sees Hunter\u2019s character arriving with a mysterious box that will unleash visceral terror for the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Bloody Disgusting spoke with Bertino about his newest horror film ahead of its premiere. The <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/exclusives\/3900582\/bryan-bertino-previews-nightmarish-vicious-ahead-of-fantastic-fest-world-premiere-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">filmmaker teased<\/a>, \u201cI wanted this movie to be emotionally challenging, psychologically challenging, spiritually challenging, and physically challenging, I wanted Polly to experience a certain amount of viciousness in all of those directions. As the bar continues to get raised in different ways in horror and what is allowed, what is not allowed, what is pushing the envelope, I\u2019m always eager to make things feel as visceral as possible.\u00a0I certainly don\u2019t think\u00a0that\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0looking at\u00a0creating\u00a0stuff\u00a0just for shock value.\u00a0I wanted to try to capture something that would be an extreme test of what someone might go through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, Polly certainly experiences one horrible night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bertino produces alongside\u00a0Richard Suckle\u00a0(Wonder Woman, Scooby-Doo). Melinda Whitaker and Shane Boucher executive produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dakota Fanning finds herself caught in a harrowing nightmare in the new trailer for Vicious, the latest from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28765,28766,156,409,111,139,69,421,28767],"class_list":{"0":"post-29444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bryan-bertino","9":"tag-dakota-fanning","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-paramount","16":"tag-vicious"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}