Anna Kendrick Tells Terrifying True Story of a Serial Killer Who Appeared on a Dating Show inWoman of the HourTrailer
Mar. 15, 2025Anna Kendricksteps behind the camera for her new thriller.
On Tuesday, Oct. 1, Netflix and BoulderLight Pictures released a new trailer forWoman of the Hour, Kendrick’s directorial debut, in which she also stars as a woman who appears on the ’60s and ’70s-era game showThe Dating Game— only to wind up meeting a serial killer in the midst of his infamous killing spree.
An official logline for the movie describes the film as a “stranger-than-fiction story of an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles and a serial killer in the midst of a yearslong murder spree, whose lives intersect when they’re cast on an episode ofThe Dating Game.”
Woman of the Hour poster.Netflix
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Kendrick’s first movie as a director premiered at the 2023Toronto International Film Festival. Though the star and director could not attend that festival due to 2023’s SAG-AFTRA strike, she said in a statement shared at the time thatWoman of the Houris the “proudest moment of my career.”
Tony Hale and Anna Kendrick in Woman of the Hour.Leah Gallo/Netflix
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“I’m grateful to every single person who gave their energy to making this film,” she said at the time. “And I’m so excited for an audience to see their hard work on the big screen.”
Kendrick recently toldEntertainment Weeklythat she originally intended to star in and produce the new film and eventually stepped in as director when the film finally found a start date for production but had “no director.”
“And of course, the whole two years, I’m sitting there going, ‘Well, if it weremymovie, this is how I’d do it. But it’s not, so it’s not my call,’ " she toldEW. “I just got so excited about the idea of taking this script that I loved so much and shaping it in the way that I saw it.”
Woman of the Hourbegins streaming on Netflix Oct. 18.
source: people.com
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