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Imagine breaking up with your partner at their flat, and as you make your move to leave the place, you find you’re trapped with them. That’s a nightmare in itself! And the trailer for the upcoming movie Brick shows what happens when residents find themselves locked inside their apartments as mysterious bricks wall up all their windows and doors. Honestly, it feels very Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado! Horror fans will know this tale, where a dude basically entombs his rival in a catacomb by bricking up the exit. The creepy murder idea was also used in the Netflix horror series ‘The Fall of the House of Usher‘, another tale inspired by Poe’s eerie prose.
But okay, getting back to Brick, which stars Matthias Schweighöfer and Ruby O. Fee as leads Tim and Olivia, the newly broken-up couple who find themselves trapped inside their apartment with a brick wall. In the trailer, as they try to break out, they find out other residents are also stuck because of the creepy brick closures. Are they supposed to die in there? But also, a Lost and Squid Game-kind of twist in the trailer reveals they are possibly under surveillance, so are they part of an elaborate game show? Who knows! “Maybe it’s some sort of twisted escape room,” is a character’s guess in the trailer. Although someone wonders if “the wall is here to protect us?”.
Remember the hilarious viral meme of Rachel Zegler scrunching up her face and saying “Weird, weird, weird” while talking about the plot of Snow White, despite being the star of the film? Yeah, I wanted to say “weird, weird, weird” too at the end of the trailer for Brick, but just not in the same obnoxious way, rather in a more confused manner.
The trailer probably gives away more of the plot than needed, so it will have to deliver a mind-boggling twist to keep things entertaining and satisfactory. Although the cast looks fabulous, and I loved Matthias Schweighöfer in Army of Thieves (not so much in Heart of Stone, though). He has already played an expert locksmith who can break open any safe, but can he break out of this bricked-in nightmare? Fans will have to wait and watch.
“Brick” will be available on Netflix on July 10. You can watch the trailer on YouTube, it’s also embedded below.