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Netflix's 'Apex' trailer teases Charlize Theron being hunted in the Australian wilderness
If there's one thing we've learned from Australian survival thrillers, it's that it's never a good idea to venture out solo into the wilderness — and if you do, you definitely want to avoid asking the locals for directions.
A cat-and-mouse survival game plays out in the Netflix trailer above for Apex, which sees Charlize Theron being hunted through the mountains by an impressively creepy Taron Egerton.
From the looks of things we can expect beautiful scenery, rock climbing and kayak-based action sequences, and plenty of shots of Egerton grinning while wielding a crossbow.
Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.
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Netflix's action-thriller Apex looks like a pure horror movie
The first Apex trailer does look thrilling, but Taron Egerton hunting a woman for sport is pure horror
The first trailer for Netflix's upcoming movie Apex arrived Wednesday, and it looks intense — a riff on the endlessly adapted short story The Most Dangerous Game, where a predatory, amoral person hunts human prey through the wilds for sport. Charlize Theron is the prey here, a thrill-seeker named Sasha who's heading for a challenging whitewater rafting site when a stranger (Taron Egerton, from the Kingsman movies) steals her gear, offers her a head start, and starts hunting her down.
"Hunting humans for sport" horror stories go way back, and this trailer echoes a few classics — in coding Egerton's character as a redneck who knows the forests and Sasha as an outsider who doesn't know the danger she's in, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (who helmed the Idris Elba creature-feature Beast) and screenwriter Jeremy Robbins (the Purge TV series) seem to be tapping into John Boorman's survival classic Deliverance. But the chase itself, across a raging river, down a waterfall, and through close-up physical confrontations where Sasha fights her opponent's physical strength, feel more like recent Predator movies, or the recent Predator-like alien-invasion movie War Machine, with a more human adversary.
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