#Coherence trailer movie#

The premise, as I laid out above, is cliche: eight thirty-somethings gather for a dinner party in the home of underworked actor Mike (Nicholas Brendon, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame) and his Skype executive wife Lee (Lorene Scafaria). I just don’t know where to start with this film. It’s all of them at once, while also being genuinely frightening and startlingly clever and all within a tight hour and a half and with a cast of relative unknowns and with only an improvised script and with a microbudget of $50,000. Hardly original stuff.īut something sets Coherence apart. The 2013 film from writer-director James Ward Byrkit isn’t a standard horror film, nor is it a standard thriller it doesn’t quite fit the mold of sci-fi or fantasy either. It’s what underpins everything from House on Haunted Hill and The Shining to episodes of The X-Files and the murder mystery send-up Clue. As the suspense and tension mounts, decisions are made, lives are upended, and our darkest fears become reality. gather for dinner/games night/vacation/etc and over the course of the night/weekend/winter/etc, some outside force beyond their ken terrorizes them.

#Coherence trailer movie#

It’s a classic horror movie trope: a group of friends/family members/co-workers/etc.