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07th Mar 2020

The first trailer for Netflix’s new horror movie The Platform is here and we’ve got chills

Keeley Ryan

The first trailer for Netflix’s new horror movie The Platform is here and we’ve got chills.

The movie, described as “a twisted social allegory about mankind at its darkest and hungriest”, arrives on the streaming service on 20 March.

It takes place in a dystopian future, where prisoners are housed in vertically stacked cells – and watch hungrily as food descends from above.

The platform moves between the floors, feeding the upper tiers, but leaving those below ravenous and radicalised.

From the trailer, it looks like it doesn’t take too long for things to escalate – with the prisoners going to great lengths to have their fill of food, or to try and escape the prison.

The Platform lands on Netflix on 20 March, but in the meantime you can check out the trailer below.

As for what’s coming to Netflix next month, you’ve got Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles to look forward to.

Just a heads up, though: season five of Peaky Blinders is also arriving on Netflix next month – and so is season two of After Lifeand Part 4 of Money Heist

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