Watch a new trailer for Julien Magnat’s medical thriller Faces in the Crowd

By Jake Dee

Posted 17 years ago

Last Updated on July 26, 2021

What if you had something called face blindness? That is, the inability to recognize even your own face? Pretty disconcerting, right?

Yet such a premise cruxes the storyline of Juilen Magnat’s horrific thriller FACES IN THE CROWD, which stars the eminently watchable Milla Jovovich. And if you’re like I, that is, willing to watch just about anything Milla appears in, feel free to take solace in a brand new trailer for the flick we have below!

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Set for a unspecified 2011 release, and with only Jovovich attached at this point, Magnat’s script picks up when:

A serial killer has been terrorizing the city. An innocent bystander witnesses his latest attack, but while fleeing, she falls from a bridge and is knocked unconscious. When she awakes in the hospital, she can”t recognize family, her boyfriend or even her own face in the mirror. She is diagnosed with prosopagnosia, or ”face blindness”. This is a real neurological disorder, like dyslexia but with faces, caused by a lesion of the temporal lobe, the part of the brain that allows us in a heartbeat to compare someone”s face with all the faces stored in our memory.

She is incapable of recognizing the same face twice. Every time she looks at someone, it’s like she’s never met them before. Being the only witness, she is hunted by the killer, leaving her paranoid in a sea of unfamiliar faces. Where can she turn? Who can she trust? Who is she waking up next to? Who is standing next to her? This suspense thriller takes us on a terrifying ride thru the blurry eyes of a woman searching for a monster amongst the faces in the crowd.

A pretty maddening thought, huh? Actually kinda reminds me of like an old Hitchcock thriller or something, where it’s all about suspense and mistaken identity. I know that’s a lofty comparison, and we’ll have to see how it pans out, but Hitch is the first name that sprang to mind after reading the synopsis. Of course, the other recent comparison may be Fernando Meirelles’ BLINDNESS, which I think we’d all like to forget about (if we haven’t already).

You ready for Milla time?

Enjoy the trailer!

That’s some yard-work, Milla!

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