With One Direction fans, Harry Styles stans and Coachella attendees alike soaking up the star’s terrain over 2022, there is one industry the “As It Was” singer is yet to dominate — and if our sneak peeks are anything to go by, it’s one that won’t be so parent-friendly. Though Styles is set to make his acting debut with the romantic drama My Policeman, speculation is hotter than ever for his other working project — the Olivia Wilde directed dark feature: Don’t Worry Darling.

Though shooting started all the way back in late 2020 under the sunny suburban streets of LA, the momentum behind the picture has seldom lost its spark. With limited casting confirmation and an all too ambiguous plotline, the hype garnered from any mention of Don’t Worry Darling is just about enough to break the internet. Shattering it to pieces this morning, some first look imagery has been released — and no, we cannot disclose how long we have spent staring at it.

Taken from a short clip, the visual shows Styles and Florence Pugh at the height of an intimate scene — quickly flipping to a shot of Pugh at a poolside, styled like an idyllic 1950s housewife. Yet when her face is seen next, wrapped all over with clingfilm as she screams from suffocation, we are prewarned that Don’t Worry Darling is nowhere near as reassuring as its title may imply.

And now, as if Warner Bro.’s could hear our most pressing thoughts, our timelines have been set ablaze with the drop of a brand new trailer. And, where the first teaser initially sparked our anticipation, this full-length trailer now has us joining Pugh herself — verging on hysteria.

Opening to frame a text-book content couple, Jack and Alice appear to be wooed by the pristine and regimented lifestyle that their supposedly utopian community rely upon. Yet this sense of security flits away as the menacing whispers of a ticking clock coalesce with a descent into psychosis and hysteria. As the score of the trailer starts to hyperventilate, a panic-stricken Alice begins to question the parameters of her restrictive environment. The ongoings of this community are directed by Chris Pine’s character, Frank, whose enigmatic charisma seems to conceal a secret malice. Whilst the men in the community revel in what this micro-society offers them, it is the women that resist the shackles of control that chain them to domesticity.

Set in the 1950s, Olivia Wilde’s direction seems to emphasise a commentary on societal and psycho-pharmaceutical repression in women trapped in their lives as housewives. The various conflicts in this trailer build to a crescendo of blood, violence, and explosions. But Don’t Worry Darling. There’s also plenty of sex, hallucination, and gender role rebellion.

You can watch the full trailer below…