Last Night in Soho drops trippy full trailer with Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie

Delayed for more than a year, the full trailer for Anya Taylor-Joy’s new movie promises trippy horror.

Edgar Wright’s long-awaited time-warped horror flick Last Night in Soho finally dropped a full trailer today.

Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, Matt Smith, Terence Smith and Diana Rigg, Last Night in Soho, which finished filming in 2019, is one of the many films to have been delayed by covid.

McKenzie plays a 21st century young woman named Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer who moves to the big city with big dreams but also a yearning for what she considers to be the glamorous era, London in the swinging 1960s.

When she falls asleep one night, she wakes up seemingly transported back to her favourite, and in the body of Sandie (Taylor-Joy), a singer and Eloise’s idol. But being Sandie isn’t the joyride Eloise thought it would be, and the fun-times soon turn to terror when a flirtation with Jack (Matt Smith) has deadly consequences.

Back in the present, Eloise discovers Sandie’s unfortunate fate but her nightly trips into the past soon starts to break down the barriers – and there will be blood.

Thomasin McKenzie plays a young woman whose nocturnal adventures sees her involved in a 1960s murder mystery. Picture: Parisa Taghizadeh / Focus Features

Last Night in Soho is Wright’s first narrative feature since Baby Driver in 2017. Wright recently directed a documentary called The Sparks Brothers, about Ron and Russell Mael, the musical duo also known as Sparks.

Wright is best known for his Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and World’s End), a series of films on which he collaborated with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Last Night in Soho was originally slated to be released in September 2020 but its delay might be able to capitalise on Taylor-Joy’s rising stardom thanks to the immense popularity of The Queen’s Gambit, which came out in October 2020.

Taylor-Joy broke out in 2015 in Robert Egger’s well-regarded horror film The Witch, and she’s been steadily building a profile since in movies such as Split and Emma and TV projects including Peaky Blinders and The Miniaturist.

Anya Taylor-Joy is one of the leads of Last Night in Soho. Picture: Parisa Taghizadeh / Focus Features

But The Queen’s Gambit introduced her to a much larger, mainstream audience. Netflix claimed 62 million households streamed the miniseries in the four weeks after its release. Taylor-Joy won the Critics’ Choice and Screen Actors Guild awards for her role and is up for an Emmy later this month.

Wright has also said he supported Last Night in Soho’s delayed release if it meant it would be seen by more audiences in cinemas. During the pandemic, many cinema movies were shunted to streaming or came out as a hybrid cinema-streaming release.

Wright told Indiewire at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, “[The producers and studios] feel as well that we want to at least give it the chance to be in theatres and see it as it was intended to be.

“I’ll happily wait if there’s a chance to see it on the big screen because that’s how it was made to be seen. I, along with the rest of the planet, hope for the vaccine to gather momentum.”

Last Night in Soho will be the last onscreen performances from Diana Rigg and Margaret Nolan who both died in late 2020.

The film premiered earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival and will be released in Australia on November 18.

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