Audience had a tough time after watching Jordan Peele’s Us, now Lupita Nyong’s returns with a new scare. This time she’s facing the nigh-insurmountable challenge of protecting schoolchildren through a zombie apocalypse in the aptly named horror-comedy Little Monsters.
The new trailer teases, Lupita Nyong’o stars as Miss Caroline, who finds herself scrambling to keep her kindergarten class safe during an unlucky field trip to a petting zoo. A a dangerous experiment goes sideways at the military base next door, creating a zombie outbreak. Although, the undead aren’t the only threat to her students’ well-being, as a belligerently drunk TV personality played by Josh Gad keeps getting in the way, and Caroline’s co-chaperone (Alexander England) are of no help at all.
The zombie movie, described by director Abe Forsythe as an “R-rated Pixar movie” for its combination of youthful innocence and gruesome zombie carnage. The film is set for a November 15 release date in the U.K. Neon and Hulu picked up the film’s domestic rights at Sundance, but a U.S. release date has yet to be announced.
Photo courtesy: Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Ben King (www.variety.com)