Trailer: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ Finally Hits

We have to say one thing we love about the trailer to the psychological thriller is that it looks exactly how we pictured it when we read the script which is honestly a very rare thing. As one of our contribs says, it looks like it “goes off the rails” which it does in the script and it’s one of those tightly wound ones you can’t mess with or it’ll falls apart. Think a certain 1990-released psychological thriller with Tim Robbins and you’ll get a good idea of the tone of this one. And again, the trailer nails that tone, for better or worse. This one isn’t a Best Picture winner in our minds, at least not on paper, but it should still be the damn best thriller we’ve seen in theaters in a while. But, hmmm, do you think the dream sequences look as “realistic” as Scorsese said they would be? Maybe as realistic as a dream sequence can be. Also as many have noted today, the trailer actually seems to spoil a lot of the film, so watch it at your own risk.

Here’s the official synopsis, but it’s not much, it’s the type of film they want to be vague about so as not to spoil all the twists:

From Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, “Shutter Island” is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

“Shutter Island” is due October 2. Note the running time on the film is 2 hours and 31 minutes. Nice. Marty’s going long because he can.