‘The Cleanse’ Trailer: Negative Feelings Become Cute Monsters In This Horror-Comedy
Johnny Galeckiembarks on a retreat to cleanse negative toxins from his body – only to be presented with a strange new problem. The befuddling trailer forThe Cleansesets up this premise, and throws some gooey creatures in the mix. WatchThe Cleansetrailer below.
Just what the heck is this?The Cleansetrailer is quite strange, and not necessarily in a bad way. Johnny Galecki plays a miserable man who goes away to a retreat with hopes of cleansing negative toxins from his body. The cleanse works – at first. But here’s the catch: the expelled toxins reform into little demonic creatures. It’s a truly weird, possibly brilliant premise. Here’s the trailer.
The Cleanse Trailer
The Cleansepreviously played a few film festivals under the titleThe Master Cleanse, with mixed results (it currently sits at 78% onRotten Tomatoes). There’s enough creative weirdness here to catch my interest, and the cast is pretty impressive as well.Anna Friel,Anjelica Huston,Oliver Platt,Kevin J. O’Connor,Kyle Gallnerco-star.
Speaking withEW, Galecki said:
“The Cleanseis about a group of people who are unhappy in their lives…They go on one of these kind of trendy retreats that are quite the fad now, not really knowing what to expect, and not really knowing what they hope to be the result, but they want, and probably need, change in their lives. And so, they are given a cleanse on their first day, at this retreat, and what the cleanse does is expels all the toxins from your body. What they don’t know, and what they soon learn, is that those toxins form into your own personal demon, your own personal pain in an embodied form — literally.”
The Cleanseis the feature debut of writer-director Bobby Miller. Miller strove to use practical effects for the tiny, surprisingly cute-looking monsters in the film. The cute appearance of the creatures is intentional, as Miller toldScreen Anarchy:
The Cleanseopens in theaters and on demand onMay 4, 2018.
