The Housemaid Trailer: Sydney Sweeney And Amanda Seyfried’s Secrets Unspool In Tense Thriller

Now here's a pitch that immediately sells itself: Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in a sexy psychological thriller directed by Paul Feig and based on a bestselling book that's sold over two million copies. Sounds great, right? Well, it looks great too. Yes, after months of social media teasing, this afternoon saw the release of the first official trailer for The Housemaid, the latest pulse raiser from A Simple Favour — and Another Simple Favour — helmsman and sartorial icon Paul Feig. And you can check out the trailer for the film, based on Freida McFadden's twist-filled book, below;

Sabrina Carpenter needledrop? Check! Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried doing that thing where you say one thing while your eyes are saying something else entirely? Check! Ominous locked doors, golden keys, and sharpened knives? Check, check, and treble check! Suffice it to say, this looks like a hoot from Feig, whose adaptation of the first in McFadden's Housemaid trilogy is set to bring Sweeney's troubled Millie into the clearly not-so-perfect home of bougie couple Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). Somehow managing to simultaneously show a lot while also giving nothing major away plot wise, this first teaser situates The Housemaid nicely within Feig's Favour movies' milieu while promising fans of those films — and the likes of Mothers' Instinct, Sirens, and Eileen — a fresh, darkly comic exploration of an unhealthy relationship between two women with a potentially deadly codependency.

And here's the official synopsis: "[The Housemaid] plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an illusion, and nothing is as it seems. Trying to escape her past, Millie (Sweeney) accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous — a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power. Behind the Winchesters’ closed doors lies a world of shocking twists that will leave you guessing until the very end."

We'll see whether or not The Housemaid, er, cleans up at the box office when Feig's latest cinematic confection hits cinemas on Boxing Day.