Emily Browning is an attractive actress who has taken on varied and challenging roles through her career. She has showed promise in films like A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, SUCKER PUNCH, and SLEEPING BEAUTY and she is sure as hell not afraid to show some skin. With a turn in next year’s POMPEII, Browning is poised for a bright future. That is unless anyone sees PLUSH.
The trailer for Catherine Hardwicke‘s latest shares more in common with her work on TWILIGHT rather than her excellent THIRTEEN. PLUSH comes from the producers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and INSIDIOUS but feels like a direct to VOD thriller. Browning plays a rock star with an obsessive fan and the trailer looks like it cannot decide if it is a horror movie or a thriller about rock stars. Either way, it doesn’t look very good.
After losing her band mate and brother to a drug overdose, rising rock star Hayley finds herself in a downward spiral. The new album from her band Plush is received as a critical and commercial disaster. She finds new hope and friendship in Enzo, the replacement guitarist who inspires her to reach new creative heights. But soon their collaboration crosses the line and Hayley, who is married with two children, retreats from Enzo’s advances. As Hayley slowly discovers Enzo’s dark and troubled history, she realizes she may have let a madman into her home and that her mistake may cost the lives of people closest to her.
Everything about this trailer screams generic and cheap and I am not talking about Emily Browning‘s wig. The dialogue spewed through this video is so bad I barely made it through the end of the entire clip. I hope I am wrong and this is not a crappy movie but rather a poorly edited trailer. Either way, if you aren’t a teenager or a fan of TWILIGHT, this is not for you.
PLUSH starring Emily Browning, Cam Gigandet, and Xavier Samuel opens September 13th.
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