Leonardo Dicaprio. Mark Ruffalo. Ben Kingsley. Max Von Sydow. And of course Martin Scorsese. These are the key elements working to get me very excited about "Shutter Island," the latest novel from Dennis Lehane ("Mystic River") to be adapted for the silver screen. Apple dropped the new trailer today, and it's good. Take a look and then hit the jump for some thoughts.
I'm a little bit surprised at the horror vibe I get from the trailer. The finished product could very well skew more towards "thriller" territory -- a la "Cape Fear" (1991)/"Bringing Out the Dead" (1999) -- but the chilling imagery and suggestive shots seen here drip with creepiness. Maybe it's the insane asylum setting that's getting to me.
Scorsese has done a lot of genre play over the course of his career, but he's never put out a proper horror flick. I somehow doubt that "Shutter Island" will be the one -- or that there will ever be "the one," given the director's particular vision -- but I'm definitely curious after seeing this trailer to find out what a Scorsese take on horror might look like.
Are you a fan of Scorsese's entire library, or do you pick and choose the good ones? Do you accept that all of his films share a unique personal stamp, a uniformity that has led Scorsese to be regarded by film theorists as an auteur? What might a Scorsese horror movie look like?
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