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The trailer starts with a surreal violin score: a deathly pale woman in a lab coat kneeling on a basement floor.
Head bowed over a collection of engraved silver glyphs, her crimson hair drenched in rivulets of blood, and eyes closed, she chants under her breath as a British cadenced voice, the same as hers, speaks over the scene.
"There are things stalking beyond the abysses that drive the sane to madness."
Letting blood spatter upon the glyphs from wounds hidden by her hair, the woman's breathing quickens as the objects begin to sizzle, the view zooming upon her heavily scarred face as her eyes slowly open and the music escalates.
"But when insanity rains," fully opening her eyes, the woman's irises are revealed to be burned scarlet, the perspective filled by a view of one of them as the narration concludes, "the only thing left… is to transcend."
After a moment of tense freeze frame, the music grows to a dynamic bass-drum rhythm, the view zooming out and revealing the eyes of a tall, robed figure stalking through the deserted mezzanine level of a shopping plaza.
With their face lost in the shadow of a hood, their limbs bend in disturbingly inhuman ways as they stride, moments before a clawed hand bursts from beneath and whips them from the corridor.
Encircled by a throng of nightmarish, slavering monstrosities, the figure rests still for a moment before their robe bursts apart, revealing them to be an anthropoid composed of intertwining tentacles.
Machine pistols clutched at the ends of their many limbs, they latch to the ceiling and, in a hail of bullets, swing from the floor and towards the view.
The perspective shifts to a scene of the woman, wielding a bayonet-equipped battle rifle, riding astride a motorcycle.
Weaving through a street crowded with writhing eldritch abominations, she stabs from the bike as a viperine creature wings behind her, the pair cutting a bloody swath through the crowd before the view changes.
Dozing in the back of a covered wagon within a barn, the woman rests, the barn's doors wide open.
A spidery creature made from tentacles creeps in through the opening, the camera shifting to its perspective as it crawls towards the wagon.
Laying a leg upon the vehicle's lip, the view glances up, only to reveal the viperine beast crouching atop the cart.
A still second passes before the winged monstrosity dives, the view filled by its gaping maw, before fleshy words bleed across the screen.
"How to Train Your Nightmares, coming to cinemas April 22nd!"