With Halloween quickly approaching, it's routine for the top streaming services to release trailers for the season's spooky new titles, and I, for one, am always on the lookout for new horror movies to help me adjust to the colder, darker months, so when I saw the trailer for Netflix's new It's what's inside, I immediately thought this would be a perfect watch for next month.
Following its successful premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in January, Greg Jardin’s mind-bending thriller has been given an October 4 release date on Netflix, which will follow its premiere at the upcoming Netflix Geeked Week, the streaming service’s version of Comic-Con.
However, despite the trailer's disturbing clips showing a mind trip induced by the technology that allows characters to swap bodies (which you can watch below), Jardin's thriller pushes the boundaries of horror by mixing elements from different genres. In an interview with Netflix, he described the film as “a sci-fi thriller with jokes.”
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In addition to her comments on the film’s genre, Jardin described it as what we can expect to be a thriller with an underlying commentary on authenticity and online lifestyles. In a conversation with Oscar winner Colman Domingo, who executive produced the film alongside her husband Raul Domingo, Jardin revealed that the film is “essentially a high-end sci-fi idea about body-swapping that allows us to explore artificial intimacy presented online in various forms, with social media being a major one.”
The trailer, which shows a group of teenagers playing a game that allows them to swap bodies, bears a resemblance to the 2022 horror film. Bodies Bodies Bodies, which revolves around a group of friends playing a murder-in-the-dark style party game, which also ends in a chaotic bloodbath. So if the black comedy elements of It's what's inside Match the unbridled humor of Bodies Bodies Bodiesone of the best movies on Netflix, it might be in the running for my most anticipated movie of the spooky season.
What to expect from the plot of It's What's Inside?
Speaking to Domingo, Jardin distills the plot into three key threads: “A group of friends at a party, a guy brings a suitcase, things get crazy.” The plot takes place during the events of a pre-wedding party, a group of friends gather at a large estate to begin the celebrations; each of them represents a different archetype, including influencer Nikki (Alycia Debnam-Carey), artist Brooke (Reina Hardesty), stereotypical guy with a trust fund Dennis (Gavin Leatherwood) and groom Reuben (Devon Terrell).
But it is the mysterious Forbes (David Thompson) who turns things upside down, arriving at the show with a mysterious suitcase. He opens it to discover a polygraph-like device that allows people to switch bodies using electrodes, and when he convinces the guests to take part in the game, the evening takes a mind-blowing turn of events.
