Watch the strange opening sequence of Drafthouse Films’ Borgman

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

If you didn’t get your fill of BORGMAN weirdness from the “Bucketheads” clip we posted earlier in the week, perhaps this will do the trick. Drafthouse Films has released the first five minutes of the creepy thriller, which begins its U.S. rollout this weekend. It’s obvious from this opening that Borgman isn’t a popular guy in his village, something he’s well aware of.

A dark suburban fable exploring the nature of evil in unexpected places, BORGMAN follows an enigmatic vagrant who enters the lives of an upper-class family and quickly unravels their carefully curated lifestyle. Charming and mysterious, Camiel Borgman seems almost otherworldly, and it isn’t long before he has the wife, children and nanny under his spell in a calculated bid to take over their home life. However, his domestic assimilation takes a malevolent turn as his ultimate plan comes to bear, igniting a series of increasingly maddening and menacing events.

BORGMAN opens in NYC this Friday, and expands June 13th and June 20th.