{"id":344921,"date":"2025-12-12T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/344921\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:54:08","slug":"alpha-trailer-raw-director-julia-ducournau-returns-with-more-body-horror-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/344921\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Alpha&#8217; Trailer &#8211; &#8216;Raw&#8217; Director Julia Ducournau Returns with More Body Horror in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving herself to be a singular voice with Raw and Titane, writer-director Julia Ducournau is going for a body-horror hat trick with Alpha.<\/p>\n<p>Set to a haunting piano rendition of Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds\u2019 \u201cThe Mercy Seat,\u201d the trailer below previews an apocalyptic exploration of addiction through the eyes of a child.<\/p>\n<p>Originally due out this past October, the film will now hit theaters on March 27, 2026\u00a0via Neon.<\/p>\n<p>It follows Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old who lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.<\/p>\n<p>Tahar Rahim (Madame Web), Golshifteh Farahani (Extraction), and M\u00e9lissa Boros star with Emma Mackey (Death on the Nile), Finnegan Oldfield (Infested), and Louai El Amrousy.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, earning Ducournau her second Palme d\u2019Or nomination. Titane took home the prestigious award back in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ALPHA-Teaser-Poster-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proving herself to be a singular voice with Raw and Titane, writer-director Julia Ducournau is going for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[63212,88,172534,206,36096],"class_list":["post-344921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alpha","tag-entertainment","tag-julia-ducournau","tag-movies","tag-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}