Trailer For Livid Doesn’t Really Reach The Same Heights Of Beauty As The Full Film

This trailer for Maury and Bustillo’s Livid approaches the story in a very different way to the actual film, starting with some of the flashback scenes and with characters that we don’t get to meet until later in the full plot line. It’s a curious move, and it results in a more spoilery trailer than many would find ideal.

You may just want to skip this trailer outright and instead take my word for it: the film is well worth your time.

If you did watch that trailer, I feel I should tell you that it’s trying to make the film look a lot more “normal” and “predictable” the whole thing feels. It’s not so much the plot elements that stand the film apart from the pack – which is precisely how this trailer was possible, I suppose – but it’s the emphasis, imagery and tone.

Here’s how the film actually starts: Lucie meets up with Ms. Wilson for her training as a carer of the elderly, visiting a number of infirm and alone people that need her help with their medication. It’s only later that the old, spooky house aspect comes into play – after we’ve established a quietly off-kilter world at large, set up some plot pieces and sewn the seeds of subtext.

Perhaps skewing the trailer towards the first act would have been deceptive. Perhaps they should have still done so anyway.