So if you happened to see Infinity Pool last weekend, you probably were surprised and delighted by the trailer for Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men, a new folk horror flick that’s been a hit on the festival circuit. It’s swell promotion, given that the target audience for esoteric horror like this overlaps with those who’d see a Brandon Cronenberg movie in its first weekend at the theater, but there’s one problem. See, if you’re anything like us, you have been saying the title of this movie as “Enfys Nest” whenever it comes up in conversation. That’s the name of a Star Wars character that popped up in Solo, and for whatever reason, it got stuck in our brains in a way that didn’t happen with, say, Woody Harrelson’s character or Thandiwe Newton’s. So, to counteract and correct further mispronunciation, Neon has put the trailer online for all to see.
Peep it:
Here’s a short and shockingly… boastful synopsis? At least they didn’t call him a “visionary director,” or we’d never hear the end of it from the extremely online horror fan:
“A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Enys Men hits theaters on March 31. If you’re looking for a time to really sink your teeth into folk horror — we recommend the lovely documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched as a great starting point — now might be the time, especially since Ari Aster’s got his sight sets on Californian anxiety for the time being.