Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode anticipate the end of the world with an epic Christmas bash in Silent Night trailer
It's an unforgettable, final Christmas in Camille Griffin's comedic horror
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‘Tis the season for the world to end. Or at least, that’s how this holiday season plays out in the trailer for Camille Griffin’s star-studded comedic horror Silent Night. Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode play parents Nell and Simon, who prepare for their imminent deaths caused by deadly noxious gasses by throwing a final Christmas Day bash with their friends and kids in the English countryside.
In the trailer, the group of friends try to make the best of their final day. Simon and his friend Tony (Rufus Jones) rob a gas station. They drink—a lot. They dress up in their finest outfits. Nell parties it up, dancing as if she has no worries, and gives a toast celebrating her loved ones.
But as they prepare for the impending end of civilization, there’s still plenty of chaos.
A guest named Sophie (Lily-Rose Depp) speaks up at the dinner table, saying the adults “should be honest with the kids” and tell them exactly what’s going to kill them all.
One of the children believes that it’s the Russians who want them all dead, sending poisonous gas to kill them all in the morning. But no, as Nell’s kids explain to the little girl, the Russians aren’t to blame for this chaos.
Nell is then shown explaining to her understandably anxious and terrified son Art (Jojo Rabbit’s Roman Griffin Davis) that the gasses will “kill anything and anyone that is still alive.” But Art, in his rebellion and confusion, decides to run away, bringing more tension to an already fraught night.
This marks Griffin’s first feature film, and the first time that Silent Night writer and director has worked with her son, Griffin Davis.
The movie arrives just in time for the holidays on December 3, both in theaters and streaming exclusively on AMC+.
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normally, i would love this. but right now in today’s world, it’s not funny. your mileage may vary.
“ the gasses will “kill anything and anyone that is still alive.”
Well, yeah, who else would they kill?
“My secret plan: we trick the gasses into wasting their time on the already dead!”
Bruce Willis?
Zombies? Nice apocalypse crossover.
Spoiler: the cause was robots!
Cranking out countless cheap, instantly-forgettable, streaming holiday movies to cheapen the coin of the season is one of the more subtle and insidious fronts in the War on Christmas.
Eh, at least this isn’t yet another extruded RomCom product. If they have to keep cranking out holiday movies, try more shit like this. I mean all the damn “romance with incognito royalty” movies made me miss when “romance with secret relative of Santa” was the big thing; this at least sounds like an improvement on those godforsaken pieces of shit.
I want to see a “Christmas romance with incognito royalty” movie where both parties are incognito royalty, and when each one finds out the other one was lying to them, they start a war that kills millions.
and why must there be so much “end of the world” type stuff? After 2+ years and counting of pandemic, please give me some mindless escapism not involving nihilism, apocalyptic wastelands, imminent death, or war crimes and genocides, thank you.
This was written, and I think filmed, before the pandemic hit the UK.
written and filmed before last August? Yikes, even with the pandemic that’s not a thundering vote of confidence to wait so long to release it
Filming wrapped pre-pandemic but COVID delayed reshoots, which couldn’t be completed until September 2020 after the UK came out of lockdown, which I guess was too soon to complete post-production and begin marketing the film for a Christmas release. If they weren’t getting it out for December 2020 I don’t think delaying it until December 2021 is any indication of the film’s quality, but rather the studio waiting until it was seasonally appropriate to release.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during the discussion about the “seasonal appropriateness” of releasing a Xmas movie where everyone dies at the end LOL
You could, like, watch something else.
“cheapen the coin of the season”You sweet summer child.
I love “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” more than most, so this has a steep uphill climb to claim “best Keira Knightley movie about the end of the world” for me.
Came here to say the same thing. That movie is ridiculously underrated.
Big same!
Oh, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is wonderful. I guess I understand why it’s not more well-known or talked about – a tough movie to market I guess. But it’s beautifully done and sweet as hell.
maybe it’s partly the age difference between the leads
But….I thought they were just friends?
spoiler alert?
I didn’t see the movie, I’m just referring to the title. It’s not “Seeking an F-Buddy for the End of the World.”
it’s hollywood, did you think they weren’t going to do it
Nah, they definitely have sex at least once.
It’s a movie about the literal apocalypse and we’re worried that two consenting adults having sex is problematic?
I’m sorry to have to tell you this but it’s NOT A REAL THING that happened, it’s a MOVIE
Yes, and in that MOVIE, two consenting adults got into a relationship. Like it’s a situation where all laws and societal norms would be out the window, and people are like “Ew, age difference, gross”?
So you have a problem with big age differences in a non-apocalyptic movie, like Clint Eastwood and the 40+ years younger women he romances in Cry Macho and otherwise. You have a problem with Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingway in Manhattan. BUT if it’s postapocalyptic all bets are off, Steven Segal and somebody above the age of consent in Mississippi is no longer gross because they movie they are in is just about a time when societal norms are out the window. Harrison Ford and Anne Heche in Six Days and Seven Nights is a liminal case because they’re under a lot of stress and it’s basically the apocalypse for them, so the age difference is less gross.Or, my guess, you don’t think it’s an issue and you’re being disingenuous by suggesting there are circumstances where you think it might be.
Yes, if it fits the story, I don’t care. I also don’t care what consenting adults do in general, not sure how I’m being disingenuous about that but whatever. There are enough Bryan Singers out there that I couldn’t really care less if Kiera Knightley and Steve Carell were banging in real life either.
It’s because you don’t believe the problem I am spotlighting is a problem at all, so you’re the wrong person to express an opinion on if this particular instance of it is egregious or not. Hollywood promotes sexism by pairing men with women who are 20+ years younger all the time instead of women their own age. The time that didn’t happen was that movie where Keanu Reeves is into Diane Keaton and that’s it. You don’t think that’s a problem, that’s on you, everybody else generally accepts this is a problem.Also you can be against rape and simultaneously be against promotion of unhealthy body issues, ageism, lots of things, I’m against murder and I’m also against slapping, for example.
What consenting, sober adults do with their private lives isn’t a problem. Also, as a very intelligent person upthread mentioned, this is a MOVIE, about the END OF THE GODDAMNED WORLD, where a 20 something & 40 something having sex is the least of anyone’s problems.
Yes, but you also think if it’s a movie about going out for noodle soup then having a 20 something age difference between the male and female lead is the least of anyone’s problems. Honestly the funniest thing about this is that you think the SUBJECT of the movie is relevant, “Ah the apocalypse, finally I can date outside of my age range!” “We have a new trilogy of films where Al Pacino is dating Millie Bobbie Brown but we made sure to set it in a universe exactly like ours except that horses can talk…the horses talking thing makes it in no way relevant to women’s perceptions of their self-worth as they are warped through the sexist lens of hollywood, because the horses talk you see”I mean really what was missing from “Manhattan” was a giant meteor heading towards Earth…then it would have been fine for Woody Allen to date a high schooler!
I love how you jump from child molester Woody Allen dating a high schooler to two adults who are both several years beyond the age of consent. Okay, let’s flip it on you, what’s the appropriate age range for two humans who are considered by society to be old enough to make their own life decisions to hook up without ANathonofFillions waiting in the wings, ready to get that finger a-waggin’ at the inappropriateness of it all?
It’s about the message the movies are sending to women, it’s not about the age of consent, I never said Mariel Hemingway’s character was below the age of consent, and I’ve used multiple other examples. The thing is that you’re clearly incel-adjacent so you can’t understand why it would be harmful to women to see the ideal pairing for a 20 year-old woman as with a 60 year-old man and for a 60 year-old woman as ideally dead or at least completely forgotten.
Incel-adjacent?! Like I live on a little side street of Incelville, where we believe that adults can do adult stuff? Buddy I would bed down with Helen Mirren on any night of the week if she’d have me (she would not have me). But whatever, sure, Steve Carell in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is a dirty little sex pest, happy?
oh you don’t know what an incel is, that’s hilarious
People think it’s too “twee” and “indie” or whatever but it genuinely taps into something. I feel like it’s one of the more realistic depictions of what end times would be like.
At the very least, it should be able to surmount Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
“A guest named Sophie (Lily-Rose Depp) speaks up at the dinner table, saying the adults ‘should be honest with the kids’ and tell them exactly what’s going to kill them all.”“Nell is then shown explaining to her understandably anxious and terrified son Art that the gasses will ‘kill anything and anyone that is still alive.’”Hmm…it’s subtle, but I wonder if maybe just possibly this could be an allegory for climate change?
The closing tag has a character say that they regret not voting for the Green party, so I doubt subtlety was ever intended.
why cant they just get gas masks?
It’s not the Russians. It’s the trees.
I take it this is not a Hallmark Holiday film. Watch enough of those and you wish it was the end of world.
The Hallmark Channel is possibly the singular reason I don’t miss having cable. Pure, unfiltered dreck.
I always wonder how these people with very limited resumes all of the sudden are directing star-studded features. Like, looking at Griffin’s IMDB, there’s a handful of minor jobs, a second unit job from 20 years ago, a few 10-20 year old shorts, and then BAM, Keira Knightley.
So, “On the Beach”, but funny?
I saw this at TIFF and really enjoyed it. Although I am a sucker for any sort of Christmas movie that leans into the macabre. Between this one and Riders of Justice with Mads Mikkelson, I’ve been able to add two good really films to my dark Christmas movie rotation.
Add “rare exports” if you’ve never seen it.
“This marks Griffin’s first feature film, and the first time that Silent Night writer and director has worked with her son, Griffin Davis.”Um, isn’t the second half of the sentence necessarily true given the first?
I guess she could have worked with her son on a TV or stage project.
Last Night – The Canadian end of the world.