'The Line' trailer pulls you into a nightmare frat

Even the trailer for this movie is deeply unsettling.
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Shannon Connellan
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The cast of "The Line" walk down the stairs in a frat house.
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A prestigious college fraternity sits at the core of The Line, but as you'll see in the trailer, it's more of a nightmare pit.

Directed by Ethan Berger, the film follows Tom (Hereditary's Alex Wolff) as he joins the KNA (Kappa Nu Alpha) frat with hopes of advantageous relationships and opened doors. He starts dating fellow student Annabelle (The Little Mermaid's Halle Bailey). But the frat, run by its president Todd Stevens (Lewis Pullman), is a sinister den of toxic masculinity, hazing, and openly normalised hate — and that's the tip of the iceberg.

"In The Line, there is no place more terrifying than a frat house," writes Mashable's Belen Edwards in her review.

How to watch: The Line hits cinemas Oct. 18.

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.


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