The super trippy trailer for mother! starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer

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We knew it was gonna be weird. Between the cryptic first poster in May to the teaser last week, the Internet has been combing through theories and ideas of what Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is about and this two-minute trailer both gives us a lot to unpack and tosses more questions our way.

Resembling something between Rosemary’s Baby and American Horror Story, the quiet lives of Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem (we still have no character names, no one on the film’s imdb page does) are quickly upset by the arrival of Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer (serving face for days) and then soon by dozens more. Terror, pounding drums and shrieking violins punctuate and ratchet up the tension and things get crazier and bloodier.

mother! lands in theaters on September 15 but before that it will hit the Venice and Toronto film festivals. Here is the trailer and the new poster, which harks back to the cracked-doll imagery of Black Swan.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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