{"id":229711,"date":"2025-12-12T19:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229711\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:39:09","slug":"alpha-trailer-raw-director-julia-ducournau-returns-with-more-body-horror-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229711\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Alpha&#8217; Trailer &#8211; &#8216;Raw&#8217; Director Julia Ducournau Returns with More Body Horror in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving herself to be a singular voice with Raw and Titane, writer-director <strong>Julia Ducournau<\/strong> is going for a body-horror hat trick with <strong>Alpha<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Set to a haunting piano rendition of Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds\u2019 \u201cThe Mercy Seat,\u201d the trailer below previews an apocalyptic exploration of addiction through the eyes of a child.<\/p>\n<p>Originally due out this past October, the film will now hit theaters on <strong>March 27, 2026<\/strong>\u00a0via Neon.<\/p>\n<p>It follows Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old who lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tahar Rahim<\/strong> (Madame Web), <strong>Golshifteh Farahani<\/strong> (Extraction), and <strong>M\u00e9lissa Boros<\/strong> star with <strong>Emma Mackey<\/strong> (Death on the Nile), <strong>Finnegan Oldfield<\/strong> (Infested), and <strong>Louai El Amrousy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, earning Ducournau her second Palme d\u2019Or nomination. Titane took home the prestigious award back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ALPHA-Teaser-Poster-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proving herself to be a singular voice with Raw and Titane, writer-director Julia Ducournau is going for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[8349,18,117,19,17,80463,327,122869],"class_list":{"0":"post-229711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alpha","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-julia-ducournau","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115708295375268548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}