The First Trailer For ANNIHILATION Is Here
Here at Everything is Scary, we love Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy of weird fiction novels. Engaging in themes of human identity, nihilism, and metaphysics, Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance are three of my all time favourite cosmic horror stories. And now the first of those stories is coming to the big screen in February, adapted by Alex Garland (Ex Machina) and starring Natalie Portman.
The trailer is appropriately psychedelic, giving glimpses of the Area X border, and the strange biology that lives beyond, as well as some major series icons like the lighthouse, the Southern Reach debriefing room, and the inverted tower. Take a look:
If that’s whet your appetite for more discussion on Area X and the cosmic horrors within, check out some of our articles that examine VenderMeer’s visionary work of weirdness and its place in horror culture:
The Horror of Inversion in ANNIHILATION