Yes, the sequel to Netflix’s best horror thriller has a trailer and release date
Sometimes a movie comes along that blows you away. It’s unexpected and exciting — you’ve never seen anything like it before and you can’t help but become an unpaid walking billboard, promoting it to everyone you know. That’s me with The platform.
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s stunning Spanish sci-fi/horror/fantasy/thriller/you name it film is about a filthy futuristic prison consisting of an immense vertical shaft in which the prisoners live stacked on top of each other and grotesquely dependent on one another.
It’s part cleverly conceived but nightmarish metaphor for wealth inequality, part claustrophobic drama, and part gory shock-and-awe horror. The whole film is a series of surprising revelations and small, telling discoveries — not so much M. Night Shyamalan “This changes everything!” revelations as a series of small, painfully knife-in-the-wound plot twists. It’s a fantastical experience, a breathtaking and at times terrifyingly suspenseful film with a winning sense of black comedy on top of it all.
That makes me both excited and, admittedly, skeptical about The platform 2Netflix’s upcoming sequel. How do you follow up something so unique, surprising, weird, and built around discovery?
The first teaser trailer for The platform 2 just released, and it’s going strong – it’s just a flood of shocking, striking images – suggesting the film has its own unique identity rather than just being a rehash.
The sequel is built around a new protagonist and a new situation, but returns to the same mind-bending prison. Gaztelu-Urrutia is back in the director’s chair, and original writers David Desola and Pedro Rivero are also back, along with another Spanish writer, Egoitz Moreno. Here’s the description from Netflix:
As a mysterious leader imposes his rule on the Platform, a new resident becomes embroiled in the fight against this controversial method of combating the brutal food system. But when eating from the wrong plate becomes a death sentence, how far will you go to save your life?
The platform 2 will be released on Netflix on October 4.