The Best Trailers to React to This Week
Every Friday this page gets torn down and rebuilt around a single question: which trailers deserve your camera over the next seven days. You get two lists. The first covers what opens between today and next Friday, where search and comments are busiest right now. The second covers the slow burners, the titles people will keep typing into search bars through the holidays. Each pick links to its page on Reactr, where a free browser recorder plays the trailer while you film yourself watching it. Nothing to install, nothing to edit, no green screen required.
Releasing this week: react while the conversation is live
Other Mommy (October 9). Last week this sat in the hype tier. Now it opens in seven days, which moves it to the top of the board. Rob Savage directs for Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, Jessica Chastain stars, and the setup is a girl named Bela who gets close to something in her house that looks almost exactly like her mother. Rated R, with Jay Duplass, Dichen Lachman and Karen Allen in the cast. Horror is the genre where an unrehearsed face does the selling for you, so give the trailer your full attention, keep your hands down, and let the jump land where everyone can see it. Then pause and say which version of the mother you would trust.
Digger (October 2). Opening today. Alejandro G. Iñárritu directing Tom Cruise in a Warner Bros. and Legendary comedy, rated R, about the most powerful man in the world racing to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he caused swallows everything. Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons and Michael Stuhlbarg are in it, and John Goodman plays the President. The page carries the official trailer, a Tom Cruise retrospective cut and two teasers, so you can stack two or three short reactions instead of one long one. The obvious opening line is the honest one: did you ever expect Iñárritu and Cruise to make a comedy together?
Bokshi (October 9). Hindi horror drama from director Bhargav Saikia, 142 minutes, in cinemas October 9. A girl still reeling from her mother's violent disappearance leans on her history teacher, then a school trip to a prehistoric site puts her face to face with what she is supposed to become. The page holds an official trailer and a teaser. Indian horror pulls a big audience online and English language reactions to it are thin on the ground, so you are competing with very few channels for every search. Watch the teaser first, guess what is waiting at that site, then hit the full trailer and find out how far off you were.
Fjord (October 9). Cristian Mungiu directing Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, rated R, 146 minutes. A Romanian family moves to a remote Norwegian village after a death in the family, the neighbors are kind, and then their young daughter turns up at school covered in bruises. Two subtitled trailers are on the page. This is the slow, uncomfortable kind of trailer that rewards a reactor who is willing to sit in silence for a beat and then say what they suspect. Do not rush to a verdict on who is at fault. Say what you think the trailer wants you to believe, and whether you believe it.
The hype tier: what people are searching before it exists
Avengers: Doomsday (December 18). The top of the demand board again, and the gap to second place has not closed. The Russo brothers, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Pedro Pascal and heroes from three separate universes heading into one collision, 165 minutes of it. The page now holds a special look, the official trailer and two teasers. If you have not covered it yet, the special look is the shortest path in. If you have, react to a teaser you skipped and compare it on camera to what you predicted last time.
Street Fighter (October 16). New to this list. Capcom and Legendary, Kitao Sakurai directing, PG-13, set in 1993 with Andrew Koji as Ryu, Noah Centineo as Ken and Callina Liang as Chun-Li, plus Joe Anoa'i, Cody Rhodes and David Dastmalchian. Two weeks out, with a new trailer, the official trailer and a Blanka versus Ryu special look all on the page. Game adaptations bring two audiences to the comments, the people who played and the people who did not, and both will tell you exactly where you are wrong. Call out every move you recognize by name.
The Mongoose (October 30). Four weeks out and still climbing. Liam Neeson plays a falsely accused war hero leading police on a televised chase across the country, backed by men from his old Special Forces unit, while the public cheers him on. Marisa Tomei, Ving Rhames and Michael Chiklis co-star, 99 minutes. With only one trailer out, every reaction is built from identical footage, so your angle is the whole product. Try this one: count how many times the trailer shows you a crowd watching a screen, and ask your viewers which side of that screen they are on.
Fatherland (October 23). Paweł Pawlikowski's road film, 82 minutes, Sandra Hüller as Erika Mann driving her father Thomas from American held Frankfurt to Soviet held Weimar in 1949. Hüller also turns up in Digger this week, which gives you a rare pairing: two trailers, one actor, two completely different registers. Record them back to back and talk about range. Subtitled trailers reward a reactor who reads the key line aloud rather than paraphrasing it.
Possible Love (October 23). Lee Chang-dong returns with Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung and Cho Yeo-jeong, 165 minutes, rated R. A laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her husband, and hidden desires surface on both sides. The subtitled trailer gives away very little on purpose. That is useful: your job here is not to explain the film but to say what you noticed, what you could not read, and what you want to find out. Viewers who know Lee's earlier work will fill in the rest in your comments.
Cleared by the studio: the two titles with written permission
OBITUS (November 19, Azerbaijan). Recfilms' parasite survival horror, screened at Marché du Film in Cannes this year, and still the first title on Reactr cleared in writing by its rights holder. The teaser runs seventy-four seconds: a flood, a village cut off, and something spreading through the survivors that the footage will not show you. The creator asset kit on the page hands you stills, the poster and the title logo for your thumbnail. Reactions logged against it remain few, which is the whole opportunity.
My Cherie Amour (streaming now in the US). Cleared on the same terms. An independent suspense thriller out of Kansas City from AGA Productions, written and directed by Khalid Abdulqaadir, following a college student and her family as a stalker closes in, someone tied to them more closely than they realize. The page has an 84 second trailer and a 125 second extended cut, both cleared along with the press kit art. Since it is already streaming, you can post the trailer reaction this weekend and follow it with a verdict as soon as you have watched the film.
How to work this list
Pick one from the top section and one from the bottom. The release week title catches the wave while it is cresting. The hype tier title keeps surfacing in search long after this edition gets archived. Two recordings in one sitting, roughly twenty minutes, and you have posts for the rest of the week. Put your handle on both clips before you upload them anywhere.
Then come back and log the verdict. When a film you reacted to actually opens, saying whether it exceeded, met or fell short of what the trailer promised is the part almost nobody does, and it is the part that turns a pile of clips into a track record.
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