The Gift Trailer Holds Grudges

The first half of this new The Gift trailer is a wonderfully insidious bit of voiceover, a fear mongering case for karma and a warning that what you do young may come back when you’re old. The rest, is what you’ve already seen from Joel Edgerton’s upcoming directorial debut, a stalker-revenge thriller about a man who holds onto past misdeeds with an ever tightening grip. 

In The Gift, “Can you really go through life having never wronged anyone? Even if you are unaware of how, or when, and even who you may have wronged….chances are there is someone out there who won’t ever forget it…or you. Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon’s high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn’t recognize Gordo (Joel Edgerton) at first, but after a series of uninvited encounters and mysterious gifts prove troubling, a horrifying secret from the past is uncovered after more than 20 years. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us, and are past bygones ever really bygones?”

The Gift, initially slated for July 31st will now hit theaters August 7th from STX. Blumhouse produces.