Crawl administrator Alexandre Aja is back for the pulse-pounding Netflix thriller Oxygen. Aja first came to the attention of international audiences with his punishing 2003 repugnance cinema High Tension, one of its most important movies of the New French Extreme movement of the early ‘0 0s. Aja then realise the inevitable move to Hollywood for the horror remakes The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha 3D. In 2019 he impressed Quentin Tarantino and many others with his alligator attack movie Crawl, a surprise hit with $91 million taken at the worldwide box office on a modest budget of really $13 million.

Now the most extreme of French horror directors is back with his latest effort, a Netflix thriller starring Inglourious Basterds‘ Melanie Laurent and Quantum of Solace’s Mathieu Amalric. Oxygen( which was previously being announced O2) concerns a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic group with no remembrance of how she got there, who must solve the mystery of who she is before she runs out of air. See the brand-new teaser trailer for Oxygen in the opening below 😛 TAGEND

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Laurent of course is now a filmmaker in her own right, and in fact is soon set to release her recent directorial endeavour The Nightingale starring Elle and Dakota Fanning in a World War 2 drama based on an acclaimed novel. Oxygen however considers Laurent back in front of the camera for a sure to be tense thriller that, with its set up involving a lone woman caught in a seemingly unavoidable life-threatening statu who must use her humours to survive, clearly recalls the previous Netflix film Gerald’s Game from Stephen King and Mike Flanagan. Aja and Laurent’s Oxygen is set to punched Netflix itself on May 12, 2021.

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