“Beautiful. Sweet. Powerful. You either have it or you don’t.” Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) speaks these words at the beginning of the new trailer for Neon’s Her Private Hell, a film from writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn that has a very specific vibe to it, and that vibe is eerie, sexy, enigmatic, and a whole bunch of other adjectives one thinks of when one hears synth music overlaid with hazy neon lighting and sequined dresses.
Here’s the official logline, which doesn’t do the film justice:
When a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father. Her quest collides with an American G.I. on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell.
Thatcher plays that troubled young woman, and Charles Melton (May December, Riverdale) plays that American G.I. The trailer also introduces us to the “Leather Man” who I assume is that “deadly and elusive entity,” and who I also assume is responsible for ripping a young woman apart like she was unshelled edamame.
The trailer does its job: I want to see this movie.
In addition to Thatcher and Melton, the film stars Havana Rose Liu, Kristine Froseth, Shioli Kutsuna, Aoi Yamada, Dougray Scott, Diego Calva, and Hidetoshi Nishijima. Refn directs and co-wrote the screenplay with Esti Giordani.
Her Private Hell premieres in theaters on July 24, 2026.
Check out the trailer below.
