Netflix’s Horse Girl trailer features a lot of Alison Brie talking about extraterrestrials and very little of Alison Brie talking about horses.
In short, this isn’t quite the horse girl story you might have been expecting.
Instead of Alison Brie’s character fulfilling every middle school girl’s dream of riding horses all day, we see her slowly unraveling as she tries to figure out if her grandmother’s mental illness has been passed on to her or if she is truly experiencing the same alien abductions her grandmother once talked about.
Of course, there are a few scenes with horses, though it’s unclear how clearly they figure into the story about aliens, mental illness and loneliness.
The film reunites Alison Brie with her Little Hours director Jeff Baena, on a script she likewise co-wrote with the director. Check out the trailer below!
Horse Girl initially seems like it might be a heartwarming coming of age story of finding yourself and finding love as it introduces us to Alison Brie’s Sarah, a socially awkward and shy young woman who works at an arts and crafts. She spends most of her time working on small craft projects, at Zumba, taking care of horses and watching supernatural crime shows.
We see her introduced to someone who seems like he’ll go on to be her love interest, only to have the movie take a hard left from coming-of-age story into a supernatural thriller/horror tale.
The back half of the trailer shows Sarah’s increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life to the point where she can’t figure out what might be real and what might be created in the muddle of her mind.
Joining GLOW star Alison Brie in the film are Molly Shannon, Paul Reiser, Jay Duplass, Robin Tunney, Debby Ryan, and Toby Huss.
Horse Girl will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, before heading to Netflix on February 7.
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