Game of Thrones Stars Sophie Turner and Kit Harington Reunite in New Trailer for Horror Film The Dreadful

Major Game of Thrones reunion alert: Lionsgate conscionable released the archetypal trailer of the upcoming gothic fearfulness movie The Dreadful, which stars Sophie Turner and Kit Harington.

The trailer, below, gives fans a glimpse of a pistillate (Turner, caller from her archetypal look photograph uncover arsenic Lara Croft successful Amazon's Tomb Raider TV series) and her superstitious mother-in-law (Marcia Gay Harden) doing their champion to past successful medieval England erstwhile a antheral she knows (Harington) returns from warfare without her husband, whom helium fought alongside. The pistillate and her mother-in-law past instrumentality successful different worker who has returned home, lone to execution him. As their narration grows fraught, the woman’s tendency to determination connected with the worker her hubby knew threatens everything.

Lionsgate besides revealed an authoritative synopsis alongside the trailer: “Set successful medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen conflict to past connected the outskirts of society. But erstwhile a antheral from Anne’s past returns from war, a curse begins to instrumentality signifier done a mysterious knight and threatens to destruct them all.”

If the crippled seems a spot familiar, you’re not going crazy. In fact, The Dreadful is based connected the iconic 1964 Japanese fearfulness movie Onibaba. It’ll beryllium absorbing to spot if this movie adjacent holds a candle to that one, which is portion of the Criterion Collection and wide regarded arsenic 1 of the champion Japanese fearfulness films retired there.

It’s specified a beloved movie that nary different than Willem Dafoe, who counts the representation arsenic 1 of his favorites, antecedently held the rights to remake the it — but helium revealed during his Criterion Closet sojourn video that helium couldn’t fig retired a mode to bash it due to the fact that “it’s truthful circumstantial to its time.” He went connected to accidental that each clip helium tried to “put a rotation connected it” helium “ruined the root material.”

Turner antecedently revealed the inspiration for the movie successful an interrogation with Collider backmost successful August 2025. “It's based connected the Onibaba, which is an astonishing movie from… I don’t adjacent cognize what twelvemonth it’s from, but it is loosely based astir that. I would accidental it’s a spot similar The Green Knight. It’s benignant of supernatural and weird and truly scary.”

The Dreadful was written and directed by Natasha Kermani, who made fearfulness films Lucky and Abraham’s Boys arsenic good arsenic a conception for V/H/S/85. The movie is acceptable to get successful theaters connected February 20.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.