{"id":628955,"date":"2025-12-12T21:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/628955\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:18:19","slug":"alpha-trailer-raw-director-julia-ducournau-returns-with-more-body-horror-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/628955\/","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>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/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":628956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[28871,77,44818,3943,191434,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-628955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alpha","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-julia-ducournau","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}