'The Wolf Hour' Trailer: Naomi Watts Is Trapped Inside During A Hellish Summer Of Cultural Collapse

Blackouts, fires, looting, escalating violence, a stuffy apartment, and Naomi Watts is right in the middle of it all in New York, 1977. A rare film appearing to revel in the isolation and paranoia of its protagonist, June Leigh, Watts delivers “a striking raw nerve performance” reminiscent of an unhinged James Stewart in “Rear Window.” (read our review here)

“Everything a private moment, and who we are in private moments is very different from how we are in the world. We have personas, many of them!” Watts told EW recently. “June is someone who’s in the public eye, but not anymore. Whatever she’s experienced in a good way that made her feel valuable has been ripped away from her, so in the apartment, she’s completely free, but she also feels trapped.”

“The Wolf Hour” is not the first psychological thriller Watts has starred in. She has delved into the thriller genre before with films such as “Stay,” “Funny Games,” “Dream House,” “Shut In,” and most recently this year’s provocative “Luce.”

Here is the official synopsis for Watt’s latest thriller.

It’s July 1977, and New York City is awash with escalating violence. A citywide blackout is triggering fires, looting, and countless arrests, and the Son of Sam murders are riddling the city with panic. June, once a celebrated counterculture figure, attempts to retreat from the chaos by shutting herself inside the yellowed walls of her grandmother’s South Bronx apartment. But her doorbell is ringing incessantly, the heat is unbearable, and creeping paranoia and fear are taking hold. Visitors, some invited, some unsolicited, arrive one by one, and June must determine whom she can trust and whether she can find a path back to her former self.

The film also stars Jennifer Ehle and Kelvin Harrison Jr. (with whom Watts worked with on “Luce”) and is written and directed by Alistair Banks Griffin. ‘The Wolf Hour’ hits theaters December 6. Watch the new trailer below.