We’ve gotta say, if there’s one great thing that happened in 2024, it’s that Jaume Collet-Serra got out of the sleeper hold that Rocky Maivia put him in right around the time Jungle Cruise came out. Collet-Serra is a dope b-action/horror stylist — you don’t make the Paris Hilton House of Wax as good as it was without a guy like him at the helm — and after Black Adam, it was probably time for him to get back to basics. If you watched Carry On over Christmas, you got to see some old-school Collet-Serra on Netflix (and wasn’t that fun?).
Anyhow, he’s got another film chambered in the Blumhouse-produced The Woman in the Yard, which is about a family that’s being menaced by a creepy-ass lady in — you guessed it — their yard. Universal dropped a trailer for the project (surely to get eyes on it when folks see Wolf Man this weekend), and it looks pretty gosh-darn swell.
Peep it:
Here’s a meaty synopsis:
“A lone, spectral woman shrouded entirely in black appears on a family’s front lawn without explanation and warns them “today’s the day.”
Where did she come from? What does she want? When will she leave? Only The Woman in the Yard knows.
From Blumhouse, the most successful global brand in horror, comes a new original chiller starring BAFTA and SAG nominee Danielle Deadwyler (‘Till,’ ‘The Harder They Fall,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’) as Ramona, a woman crippled by grief after she survives a car accident that takes her husband (Russell Hornsby; ‘BMF,’ ‘Fences’).
Seriously injured, Ramona now must care for their 14-year-old son (Peyton Jackson; ‘Respect,’ ‘American Refugee’) and 6-year-old-daughter (Estella Kahiha; ‘Will Trent,’ ‘BMF’), alone in her rural farmhouse.
Then one day the woman takes form in their yard.
Ramona assumes the woman (Okwui Okpokwasili; ‘The Exorcist: Believer,’ ‘Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream’) is lost or demented, but as the woman creeps nearer and nearer to the house, it becomes clear she is no ordinary figure and her intentions are anything but peaceful. Now Ramona must rally to protect herself and her children from the grasp of the woman who simply won’t leave them alone.”
The Woman in the Yard hits theaters on March 28.