Eerie trailer for Sundance award-winner Martha Marcy May Marlene

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 15 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

The trailer for Fox Searchlight’s MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE has just hit, and boy does it look good. A quiet mystery thriller, the film was a hit at Sundance (it won the Best Director award for Sean Durkin) and is scheduled to play Cannes later this month; it’s headed toward a nationwide release later in the year.

Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Hugh Dancy and John Hawkes, the film breaks down like this:
Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

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