Sandra Oh is SUPER busy. Coming off her SAG nomination forThe Chair, she’s in the midst of the final season ofKilling Eve, she has a Pixar movie,Turning Red, coming out this month, and also this month, she stars in the horror movieUmma. From writer/director Iris K. Shim, and produced by Sam Raimi,Ummadropped a trailer yesterday that is a big pile of NOPE. (But not “Nope”.) Isolated farm? Mysterious aversion to modern amenities? An estranged mother’s ashes? Something In The Basement? BEE SWARM? No thank you, I shan’t have any of it.
Creep factor aside,Umma看起来很酷。有一个micro-trend of using folklore in horror currently—Midsommar, obviously, but alsoLamband the Irish horror-dramaYou Are Not My Mother—andUmmafalls into that category, tapping into Korean mythology and folklore as the roots of its horror. I spy agumihoin the trailer—a nine-tailed shape-shifting fox—and there is some kind of ancestor magic at play, possibly riled up because of the rift of Sandra Oh’s character and her dead mother. It looks super creepy, and I do NOT like all those bees—honey is delicious but anything that swarms is Not To Be Trusted—but I will totally end up watching this, if for no other reason than Sandra Oh. Threatening bees aside, observe Sandra Oh’s range. From hospital drama to crime thriller to comedy series to Pixar to horror, what ISN’T she doing?
Attached - Sandra at the premiere ofTurning Redyesterday in LA.
