The movies have always had a fraught relationship with the internet,
depicting the online world as a vile hellscape where there is no hope,
only agony and humiliation and maybe even the end of the world. And
that’s not an entirely inaccurate description. The whole “the internet
is pure evil” thing has been the subject of more than a few science
fiction and horror films, with most of them building grand online
conspiracies or using technology as the host for some king of
supernatural evil. The arrival of a movie like Nerve proves that we’re ready to start talking about really makes the internet such a wretched hive of scum and villainy: other people.
The Nerve trailer is all about Emma Roberts and Dave Franco versus The Internet and c’mon, we all know who’s going to win that particular showdown. The internet devours all.
Directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, Nerve follows two strangers (Franco and Roberts) who are thrown together by an online “truth or dare” game, where “watchers” pay “players” increasingly large amounts of cash to do increasingly outlandish things for an audience watching from around the world. What begins as an innocent enough evening (kiss a stranger!) eventually devolves into hijinks of the ’80s comedy variety (public nudity!) before plummeting both of them into a nightmare (high speed chases! Guns!).
You can watch the trailer below, but be warned that this is the kind of preview that seemingly gives away each and every important beat of the entire movie.
Directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, Nerve follows two strangers (Franco and Roberts) who are thrown together by an online “truth or dare” game, where “watchers” pay “players” increasingly large amounts of cash to do increasingly outlandish things for an audience watching from around the world. What begins as an innocent enough evening (kiss a stranger!) eventually devolves into hijinks of the ’80s comedy variety (public nudity!) before plummeting both of them into a nightmare (high speed chases! Guns!).
You can watch the trailer below, but be warned that this is the kind of preview that seemingly gives away each and every important beat of the entire movie.
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