September 2017 Trailers That'll Blow You Away

The box office was finally kicked back into gear after a disappointing summer with the early September release of IT, and the month is chock full of other exciting entertainment events. With more huge movies pouring into theaters, trailers for potential future hits are being released as well, teasing exciting and innovative films in a way that will leave viewers clamoring for more. Here are the best movie trailers released so far this month. 

Social media obsession gets taken to a deadly new level in the trailer for the comedy thriller Tragedy Girls. The movie stars Brianna Hildebrand and Alexandra Ship as Sadie and McKayla, two teens who decide to become crime reporters in an effort to boost their social media influence. However, they quickly decide that the best way to stay on top of the news is to create it themselves. 

This leads to the pair going full on Heathers, beginning to murder their classmates, kicking off with Josh Hutcherson's big time social media influencer Toby. As the trailer shows, the girls take well to their newfound fame, and they get more and more invested in their killings and the likes that come along with them. It seems like every generation gets their violent teen comedy, and Tragedy Girls may just be that for the latest crop of teens. 

Be careful who you meet on the internet in the trailer for Creep 2. The movie, a sequel to the 2014 cult hit of the same name, will see video artist Sara (Desiree Akhavan) getting ensnared in the web of Mark Duplass' Aaron, who she thinks would be the perfect subject for her web series on lonely men due to his claims that he's a serial killer. As would be expected from anyone who's seen the eerie first film, Sara ends up with a lot more than she bargained for. This terrifying trailer may make you want to shut down your computer forever. 

Things get weird in the trailer for the Norwegian supernatural horror movie Thelma. The film stars Elli Harboe as the title character, a student at a university in Oslo whose freshman year is interrupted when she realizes that she has strong powers that she cannot explain.

The trailer starts off by introducing these powers, with Thelma in class having a seizure, as birds fly towards the building. While it slows down briefly after that to introduce Thelma's life, it quickly speeds up again, showing off gorgeous and bizarre shots featuring Thelma's increasingly terrifying powers. With Louder Than Bombs' Joachim Trier on board as director and critics already in its corner, this movie seems like an art house horror you won't want to miss. 

Ridley Scott is investigating one of the world's most famous kidnappings in the first trailer for his upcoming action drama All the Money in the World. The movie follows the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), the grandson of John Paul Getty (Kevin Spacey), the richest man in the world. The movie focuses on the desperate actions that his mother Gail (Michelle Williams) has to undergo in order to get him back. 

The trailer starts off by setting up the Gettys' charmed lifestyle, introducing them as basically being from another planet thanks to their incredible wealth. However, their idyllic life is quickly disturbed by the kidnapping, with the trailer not hesitating to deal with the more brutal details of the boy's plight. Gail, meanwhile, is stuck working with Getty's advisor (Mark Wahlberg) in his stead, with the billionaire unwilling to cough up the cash to get his grandson back. The real-life drama here is ripe for the pickings, and it's exciting to see what Scott and his all-star cast will do with the story. 

The Disaster Artist is also another reentry on this list, with the newest, full length trailer fully ramping up the The Room references and ridiculousness that was played to such wonderful effect in the first teaser. The movie stars James Franco as Tommy Wiseau, the man behind The Room, widely dubbed as the worst movie of all time.

Franco's pitch perfect Wiseau impression was already debuted in the teaser, but getting the chance to experience even more in the trailer is alone worth a watch. However, the trailer also builds on that initial comedy by further exploring the relationship between Wiseau and his co-star Greg Sestero, played by Franco's real life brother Dave, and showing how it played into The Room. The movie already has the love of critics, and if you aren't already on board, its all-star cast, also featuring Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Zac Efron, and Josh Hutcherson, should get you pumped for December. 

Matt Damon is a pretty huge star, but he's going small time for his role in the upcoming comedy Downsizing. The movie, which earned positive reviews from critics after its film festival premieres this fall, stars Damon as Paul Safranek, a man who, alongside his wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig), decides to commit to a new procedure that shrinks people down until they are five inches tall. 

The premise is fairly ridiculous, and the movie clearly recognizes that, playing up the fact that its characters are small with fun gags throughout. However, there's still a lot of heart to the movie, instilled carefully by writer and director Alexander Payne, an Academy Award winner known for The Descendants and Sideways. With Christopher Waltz and Jason Sudeikis also on board for this tiny adventure, we're ready to explore the small world. 

Natalie Portman discovers a mysterious force in the first teaser trailer for her upcoming sci-fi thriller Annihilation, in which she stars as a biologist who joins a mission to explore an environmental disaster zone after her husband (Oscar Isaac) disappears.

Portman is backed up by some big names on her mission, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, and Tessa Thompson playing the three fellow scientists who fill out the expedition. Together, the foursome has to uncover the truth about the strange and gorgeous land they encounter throughout the trailer. With the film's visuals being brought to life by Ex Machina's Alex Garland, Annihilation seems poised to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

Lara Croft has a new mission in the first trailer for Alicia Vikander's upcoming Tomb Raider reboot. The film features the Danish Girl Oscar winner as the titular adventurer as she sets off to find out what happened to her father, who died while searching for a tomb located on a mythical Japanese island. As the trailer shows, the quest will push Lara to her limits, forcing her to find a way to survive through some very dangerous situations.

The trailer hints that the film will draw heavily from the 10th installment in the game franchise, released in 2013, which offered up a deeper and more complex take on the character than the releases that inspired the Angelina Jolie-led Tomb Raider movies. However, it still features the excitement and action for which the character has come to be known, and shows Vikander is more than up to the task. With sleek directing courtesy of Roar Uthaug and what looks like an engaging script thanks to Geneva Robertson-Dworet, the new Tomb Raider seems well worth searching for.

The haunted house drama gets a gothic twist in the trailer for the upcoming horror flick The Lodgers. The movie stars Charlotte Vega and Bill Milner as two orphaned twins who are forced to live in their parents' creepy former home by a secret curse. When a young man who is in love with the sister tries to free the pair, his actions set off a deadly and terrifying reaction. 

The trailer kicks off by hinting at something more to the pair of twins, with the sister saying that they were locked away so no one would know who they were. It also hints that "the stain" on the pair came from their ancestors, who may be the ones haunting the terrifying home. The Lodgers is a horror movie not for the faint of heart, but the gorgeous and chilling visuals suggest that it is a hit in the making.