Film & TVNewsWatch the violent Assassination Nation teaser with its own trigger warningsDrugs, violence, and toxic masculinityShareLink copied ✔️June 28, 2018Film & TVNewsTextAnna Cafolla “This is the story about how my hometown, Salem, lost its motherfucking mind,” begins the chilling teaser trailer for Assassination Nation, the gory satirical crime drama that got Sundance critics raving about how fucked up it is. Assassination Nation follows a group of high school girls – Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, and Abra – navigating their wild town after an anonymous hacker starts spreading private info about the town’s citizens which sparks mass riots. Anika Noni Rose, Maude Apatow, IT’s Bill Skarsgard, and Bella Thorne also appear. Across the red, white, and blue trailer, we’re given some major visual trigger warnings, plastered across similar violent, disturbing scenes. “Bullying,” “blood,” “abuse,” “classism,” “death,” “drinking,” “drug use,” “sexual content,” “toxic masculinity,” “homophobia,” “transphobia,” “guns,” “nationalism,” “racism,” “kidnapping,” “murder,” “fragile male ego,” “sexism,” “frogs,” are just some. The film, written and directed by Sam Levinson, will crash land into cinemas September 21. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREMeet the 2025 winners of the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker AwardsOobah Butler’s guide to getting rich quickRed Scare revisited: 5 radical films that Hollywood tried to banPlainclothes is a tough but tender psychosexual thrillerCillian Murphy and Little Simz on their ‘provoking’ new film, Steve‘It’s like a drug, the adrenaline’: Julia Fox’s 6 favourite horror filmsHow Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the marginsPaul Thomas Anderson on writing, The PCC and One Battle After AnotherWayward, a Twin Peaks-y new thriller about the ‘troubled teen’ industryHappyend: A Japanese teen sci-fi set in a dystopian, AI-driven futureClara Law: An introduction to Hong Kong’s unsung indie visionary