Upcoming movie Conceived maybe it will make you rethink the way you look at stuffed animals.
On Thursday, Lionsgate and Blumhouse — the production company behind the hits M3GAN and Five Nights at Freddy’s — released the first trailer for a horror movie featuring a terrifying teddy bear.
The trailer, set to a slow, eerie version of the Temptations’ classic “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me),” opens as Jessica (Jurassic World DominionDeWanda Wise, 39) moves back into her childhood home with her family, including her stepdaughter Alice (Pyper Braun).
“I had such good memories here. Maybe my happy place can be our happy place,” says Jessica.
Pyper Braun in ‘Imaginary’.
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Uh, not so fast. Alice wanders down the stairs into the dark basement of the house and finds a teddy bear sitting on the floor. “Who left you alone down here?” she asks the toy, whose name, it turns out, is Chauncey.
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When Jessica asks about Alice’s new friend, the girl answers and gives the first sign that all is not well with this stuffed animal: “Chauncey says you can’t play with us because you left him.”
Jessica and Chauncey went on a scavenger hunt, looking for things like “something happy”, “bowls” and “brushes”.
“If I can finish my list, Chauncey will take me on a trip to where he’s from,” Alice explains.
But other items are more disturbing, including “something that scares you” and “something that hurts.” The latter leads Alice to stick her hand on a rusty nail from the fence.
According to the official synopsis, “As Alice’s behavior becomes more and more troubling, Jessica intervenes only to realize that Chauncey is much more than the teddy bear she was led to believe.”
The sequel to ‘M3GAN’ ‘M3GAN 2.0’ will be in theaters in 2025.
Conceivedcontinues the synopsis, “is an original horror film that penetrates the innocence of imaginary friends – and asks: are they really figments of a child’s imagination, or is something more terrifying lurking beneath?”
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DeWanda Wise in ‘Imaginary’.
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Keri Moore, Lionsgate’s co-president of worldwide theatrical marketing, previously hinted Diversity that something supernatural might be at play.
“Something you see in different cultures is that children have a unique access to the spirit world,” Moore told the outlet. “What if their imaginary friends are something from the spirit world? What if those imaginary friends are real, and what if it upset them when you left one of them?”
Conceived opens in theaters March 8, 2024.
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