Jordan Peele’s name came up before anything started to get weird in the trailer, so I knew what I was watching, and as I sat in a mostly empty theater I watched one of the scariest trailers I have ever seen unfold over two minutes.
Then The Favourite started and I’d be lying if i said I gave the film the proper attention, at least at the start.
I still remember the first time i saw the trailer for Us.
We knew the trailer was imminent; in fact, it was expected to be released online on Christmas Day, so when I went to the theater to do a little end-of-the-year awards season maintenance and watch The Favourite, I certainly wasn’t expecting to see that trailer, not yet and not ahead of that movie, but there it was.