History Film / Men

* BodyHorror: Harper [[spoiler:stabs the naked man through the arm as he sticks it through the mail slot, and he pulls it out so that the arm is split down the middle. The young man and vicar also have the same arm wound when they confront Harper.]]

* DontGoInTheWoods: In the trailer Harper states she saw a man in the woods who started following her. She's also seen standing at one end of a long tunnel in the woods while a figure at the other end watches her; as she turns to leave the figure begins running towards her.

* FanDisservice: The stalker is stark naked in multiple shots in every appearance, but he's also covered in open wounds and filth. And the he gets worse.

* NoEnding: [[spoiler:After a horrifying sequence where the men of the town give birth to each other one after another in a row, the last one takes the form of her deceased husband. He blames her for his death and asks for her love]] but the film ends before we see her response. There is a stinger, but all it confirms is that [[spoiler:Harper survived.]]

* ActionGirl: In the trailer, Harper is seen confronting an intruder armed with a knife. She is grabbed by the stalker through a letterbox and jabs the knife through his forearm.

* DeathlyDiesIrae: In the full trailer, Harper’s echoing voice in the tunnel is replayed at different pitches to form the four notes of ''dies irae''.

* DrivenToSuicide: In the trailer, Harper states that after an argument her husband, James, went up their balcony and "let himself go"; we see him falling from the balcony as Harper watches in horror. A priest Harper talks to suggests ''she'' drove her husband to it.
* FanDisservice: The stalker seems to be naked in multiple shots in the trailer, but he's either in silhouette, or bloodied, manic and contorting with audible bones popping and cracking.
* GhostlyGape: One shot in the full trailer features Harper's screaming face underneath some clear water; the distortion the water creates makes her mouth seem abnormally long.
* HauntedHeroine: In the official trailer, Harper explicitly refers to herself as being "haunted"; her husband recently died in an apparent suicide (which she witnessed) and she's travelled to the countryside in an attempt to recuperate, only for some really weird and creepy stuff to start happening (with a possible supernatural explanation).
* JustJokingJustification: In the trailer, Geoffrey sternly tells Harper she shouldn't have eaten an apple from the tree outside. When she begins to apologize, he laughs and says he was only joking; although Harper laughs and smiles as well, she's clearly uncomfortable and there's underlying tension.
* PoliceAreUseless: In the longer trailer Harper tells a police officer a man in the woods was stalking her. He sceptically asks how she knows that, to which she says "I saw him twice". He simply retorts "I don't know if he saw you once."
* ProtectThisHouse: The official trailer and to a lesser extent the teaser trailer depict someone attempting to break into the holiday house where Harper is staying, while she desperately tries to keep them out.
* SinisterMinister: Although he's not overtly villainous in the trailer, the priest Harper confides in starts suggesting she was in some way to blame for her husband's death despite her protestations. He also [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace puts his hand on her knee]] while she looks uncomfortable. In another, the trailer highlights him putting on lip balm and licking his lips.

''Men'' is an upcoming British horror / drama film. It stars Creator/JessieBuckley and Creator/RoryKinnear, and was both written and directed by Creator/AlexGarland.

* SinisterMinister: Although he's not overtly villainous in the trailer, the priest Harper confides in starts suggesting she was in some way to blame for her husband's death despite her protestations. He also [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace puts his hand on her knee]] while she looks uncomfortable. In another, the trailer highlights him putting on lip balm and locking his lips.

* SinisterMinister: Although he's not overtly villainous in the trailer, the priest Harper confides in starts suggesting she was in some way to blame for her husband's death despite her protestations. He also [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace puts his hand on her knee]] while she looks uncomfortable.

* AdvertisingByAssociation: The film's trailer mentions that director/writer Alex Garland also directed ''Film/ExMachina'' and ''Film/Annihilation2018''.

* BritishTeeth: Downplayed. While Geoffrey has bright, white teeth, he also has a hint of buck teeth (which are notably not Kinnear's natural chompers), making him come off as just a bit "off" and even subtly threatening at times when he smiles.

After her husband's death, Harper (Buckley) travels to the English countryside for a holiday to rest and recuperate. There she rents a holiday house from Geoffrey (Kinnear), a local caretaker. However, she soon realizes there is something abnormal about the town where she's staying and that she could be in danger.

* DrivenToSuicide: In the trailer, Harper states that after an argument her husband went up their balcony and "let himself go"; we see him falling from the balcony as Harper watches in horror. A priest Harper talks to suggests ''she'' drove her husband to it.

* BritishTeeth: Downplayed. While Geoffrey has bright, white teeth, he also has a hint of buck teeth, making him come off as just a bit "off" and even subtly threatening at times when he smiles.
* CampbellCountry: The film is set in rural England, in a village where something strange is clearly going on, with Alex Garland stating that a big focus of the film is ''"the horror of rural England. It's certain kinds of churches, certain kinds of forest – the shadows within dark green."''

* GhostlyGape: One shot in the full trailer features Harper's screaming face underneath some clear water; the distortion the water creates makes her mouth seem more abnormally long than what's normal.

* ActionGirl: when the stalker confronts Harper in her house, she brandishes a kitchen knife and takes a stand. Later on, she's grabbed by the stalker through a door slot and jabs the knife through his forearm.

* FanDisservice: the stalker seems to be naked in multiple shots, but he's either in silhouette, or as later seen,''bloodied, manic and contorting with audible bones popping and cracking.''
* GhostlyGape: One shot has Harper screaming face up underneath some clear water, the distortion the water creates makes her mouth seem more abnormally long than what's normal.

* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: A major theme of the movie is the vulnerability between the sexes. Harper is the only female character seen in the trailer, she's more vulnerable both physically and mentally (having witnessed the death of her husband, but is definitely smart, independent and proactive. The Male characters, in contrast, outnumber her, come across as a means of defense once things begin to get strange, but are tactless, ignorant or victim blame her (and in the case of her stalker, outright antagonistic).

* SurrealHorror: The base idea is straightforward, "woman with a dark past isolates to heal mentally, and is haunted." However the dark, fairytale vagueness of everything begins to set in almost immediately when Harper arrives, people talk in strange ways, things are explained but not detailed or questioned far, there are allusions and double meanings, phenomenon based symbolism, and a very clear threat that's - ironically - hazy and unbalanced in its ''why.''
* VoiceOfTheLegion: A POV shot rushing at Harper as she stands in front of her house is accompanied by a vicious multilayered yell.

After her husband's death, Harper (Buckley) travels to the English countryside for a holiday to rest and recuperate. However, she soon realizes there is something abnormal about the town where she's staying and that she could be in danger.

* JustJokingJustification: In the trailer, the man who owns the holiday house sternly tells Harper she shouldn't have eaten an apple from the tree outside. When she begins to apologize, he laughs and says he was only joking; although Harper laughs and smiles as well, she's clearly uncomfortable and there's underlying tension.

* CampbellCountry: The film is set in rural England, in a village where something strange is clearly going, with Alex Garland stating that a big focus of the film is ''"the horror of rural England. It's certain kinds of churches, certain kinds of forest – the shadows within dark green."''

* AdvertizingByAssociation: The film's trailer mentions that director/writer Alex Garland also directed ''Film/ExMachina'' and ''Film/Annihilation2018''.

* PoliceAreUseless: In the longer trailer Harper tells a police officer a man in the woods was stalking her. He sceptically asks how she knows that, to which she says "I saw him twice". He simply retortrs "I don't know if he saw you once."

''Men'' is an upcoming British horror / drama film. It stars Creator/JessieBuckley and Rory Kinnear, and was both written and directed by Creator/AlexGarland.