{"id":49218,"date":"2025-08-07T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49218\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T01:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:12:08","slug":"bulk-ben-wheatleys-mysterious-midnight-movie-gets-a-deeply-strange-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49218\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;BULK&#8217; &#8211; Ben Wheatley&#8217;s Mysterious Midnight Movie Gets a Deeply Strange Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe following promotional video has been generated using computer software and consists of randomly chosen shots from the feature film BULK.\u201d So begins the official trailer for Ben Wheatley\u2019s (Kill List, Free Fire, High Rise, Meg 2: The Trench,\u00a0In the Earth) new movie, which was directed in secret and described by the filmmaker as a true \u201cmidnight movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wheatley previews, \u201cThis is a midnight film through and through. Car chases, gun fights, sci-fi, and romance.\u201d BULK has also been\u00a0described as \u201ca return to the thrillingly free-spirited filmmaker\u2019s homegrown, kaleidoscopic works like In The Earth\u00a0and\u00a0A Field in England.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the synopsis, which brings us no closer to understanding what\u2019s going on here\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen an overzealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far \u2013 his brane explodes. Thats \u201cbrane,\u201d not \u201cbrain\u201d \u2013 but that means someone has to sort out the mess he has created. Our hero Corey Harlan is sent in \u2013 kicking and screaming \u2013 to find the heart of the brane and its creator Anton Chambers. Now manifested as a normal town house hosted by the enigmatic and multi-dimensional Aclima, his adventure begins. A house where opening a door from one room to another can lead you to other worlds, not just the kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unexpect the expected and watch the trailer for BULK below.<\/p>\n<p>The film will premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on August 14.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe following promotional video has been generated using computer software and consists of randomly chosen shots from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[27431,27432,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-49218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ben-wheatley","tag-bulk","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}