This week, the first trailer for psychological thriller Dreamquil was released. Starring Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly, it follows a jaded career mother who takes steps to find a way to repair her marriage, but finds her life changed in ways she wasn’t expecting.

Synopsis –

A woman embarks on a virtual wellness retreat in order to get her life back on track – but with nightmarish consequences.

Dreamquil has a near future setting where failing air quality leads to people living more digitally than physically. Carol finds she is struggling to maintain a healthy relationship with her husband, and her child. Based on a recommendation, Carol embarks on a “DreamQuil” digital wellness retreat. When she returns home, however, she comes face to face with a robot ‘companion’, identical to herself, which her family have come to rely on in her absence. Is this robotic Carol a godsend, or is it not quite what it seems?

Another month, another robot companion horror? Based on the title and the main cast, I expected this might be a comedy, but it is being variously billed as a sci-fi drama, and a psychological thriller. It’s difficult to get a true feel of tone from the trailer, and early word on the movie isn’t promising, but we’re looking forward to checking it out. Dreamquil is directed by Alex Prager, who writes along with Vanessa Prager. As well as Banks and Reilly, it also stars Kathryn Newton, Juliette Lewis, and Sofia Boutella.

Dreamquil is scheduled for release on October 16th, and you can check out the trailer below.