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Lars von Tri­er drops eerie teas­er for The House That Jack Built

13 Feb 2017

Words by Little White Lies

Man in raincoat standing near bell on post, holding long pole.
Man in raincoat standing near bell on post, holding long pole.
The Dan­ish direc­tor has teased his upcom­ing ser­i­al killer thriller.

Ever the provo­ca­teur, Dan­ish writer/​director Lars von Tri­er is already busy stok­ing up inter­est in his next fea­ture, even though film­ing is not sched­uled to com­mence until lat­er this year.

Set in Wash­ing­ton over the course of 12 years between the 1970s and ​’80s, The House That Jack Built is based on an orig­i­nal script about an intel­li­gent ser­i­al killer who leaves a trail of bloody destruc­tion as his dark impulse grad­u­al­ly intensifies.

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Star­ring Riley Keough, Matt Dil­lon and Bruno Ganz, the film is due out in 2018, but the con­tro­ver­sial Antichrist, Melan­cho­lia and Nympho­ma­ni­ac film­mak­er has released an intrigu­ing first-look image – a direct nod to Carl Theodor Dreyer’s clas­sic 1932 hor­ror Vampyr (scroll down to see the sim­i­lar­i­ties) – to whet the appetite. Job well done, Lars.

We have no idea whether this ear­ly teas­er has any­thing to do with the actu­al sto­ry, but it’s cer­tain­ly a nov­el way to grab our atten­tion. Com­ment­ing on the shot, von Tri­er told Vari­ety: ​“On the occa­sion of the shoot­ing of The House That Jack Built, I have made an evoca­tive pho­to with a cin­e­mat­ic reference.”

Here’s hop­ing the homage extends beyond this eye-catch­ing pro­mo­tion­al image.

Man in raincoat standing near bell on post, holding long pole.
Silhouette of person ringing a bell on a wooden frame.

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