Readers who have experienced Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, book 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy (a must-read for anyone who enjoys Lovecraftian, mind-bending horror), know that it's a truly hypnotic, increasingly unsettling experience. It's not an easy book to adapt by any means, but if anyone is up for the task, it's Alex Garland, director of Ex Machina (and writer of several engrossing screenplays). You can now enter the Southern Reach yourself in the chilling first trailer for Annihilation, which shows beautiful, otherworldly nature intermingled with something... else.
"Based on Jeff VanderMeer’s best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny and Oscar Isaac. It was written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later)."
Paramount Pictures will release Annihilation in theaters on February 23rd, 2018, and we'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated on the film as we get closer to the movie's release... and the edge of the Reach.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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