Nothing screams psychological thriller like being locked in a closet together with your unhealthy date. Which is precisely what goes down in an unique first-look clip from the October 6 movie Cat Person, directed by Susanna Fogel from a screenplay written by Michelle Ashford. Based on Kristen Roupenian’s brief story of the identical identify, the variation of the blockbuster New Yorker piece stars Succession’s Nicholas Braun and Coda’s Emilia Jones, following their unsettling try at romance within the age of textual content message flirtation and age-gap discourse. Braun performs Robert, an older man who frequents the movie show the place the 20-year-old faculty sophomore works, briefly worming his manner into her life.
Robert and Margot discover themselves within the storage room of an old earth-science lab, stuffed with diagrams on human evolution and ant farms jutting from the wall. A crimson gentle fills the claustrophobic area, the place Etruscan artifacts and human bones from Italy sit in banker packing containers, Margot tells him. Some have been found from non-funerary burial websites. “Dark, I know,” she says, clearly nerding out concerning the stays of an historic slave who was decapitated. Somehow, Robert remains to be the creepy one on this state of affairs. He can’t appear to assist being an excessively tall, bearded middle-age weirdo. After the door slams shut whereas her again is turned, Margot will get the impression that he’s gonna do one thing sinister, imagining his potential attack. “I think it’s locked,” Robert says. “Or, I did it on purpose … Because, I’m actually a werewolf.” Girl … run.
