HOLD YOUR BREATH Trailer (2024) Sarah Paulson

HOLD YOUR BREATH Trailer (2024) Sarah Paulson

HOLD YOUR BREATH Trailer (2024) Sarah Paulson
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"If you breathe him in, he'll make you do terrible things." Searchlight Pictures has revealed the first official trailer for their horror film titled Hold Your Breath, which is premiering this week at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival. It's set for a streaming release on Hulu directly in October, skipping theaters entirely though still available to watch during October's spooky season. In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family. This stars Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford, Alona Jane Robbins, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. TIFF adds that the film "perches between the supernatural and the psychological, building suspense through Paulson's layered performance and an enigmatic turn by Ebon Moss-Bachrach as a mysterious, threatening character. Transplanting gothic horror to [this] parched, midwest landscapes gives the film a deliciously disorienting feel, as if its spookiest elements could be dream or faded memory, or all too frighteningly real." Looks scary.

Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Crouse & Joines' Hold Your Breath, direct from YouTube:

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Intro via TIFF: "In dust bowl Oklahoma of the 1930s, a mother (Paulson) nears the breaking point as she tries to protect her daughters from deadly windstorms and the impact of her own harrowing past. When the older girl tells the legend of the Grey Man to the younger one, the story slips under the skin of the whole family. The Grey Man is a spirit carried like dust in the wind, breathed in, and never to be shaken." Hold Your Breath is co-directed by American indie filmmakers Karrie Crouse & William Joines, both making their feature directorial debut after making many shorts including Com Truise: Propagation (2017) previously. The screenplay is written by Karrie Crouse. Produced by Alix Madigan and Lucas Joaquin. This is premiering first at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival this month. Searchlight Pictures will then debut Hold Your Breath streaming on Hulu directly starting on October 3rd, 2024 just in time for the horror season.
Sarah Paulson stars in Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming horror movie Hold Your Breath, which is coming exclusively to the Hulu streaming service on the road to Halloween.

Hold Your Breath premieres only on Hulu October 3, 2024. While you wait, watch an exclusive video featurette below that dives into Sarah Paulson’s return to the horror genre.

Paulson explains, “What appealed to me most about this project was the time period. It’s set in the 1930s, during the Dust Bowl, which was a really terrifying experience that a lot of people in our country had to endure.” She goes on to preview Hulu’s period-set horror movie, “The movie is a horror film of sorts… but it is a horror of the mind.”

Sarah Paulson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Amiah Miller and Annaleigh Ashford lead the cast of the Hulu horror-thriller from directors Karrie Crouse and William Joines.

“In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s horrific dust storms, a woman (Sarah Paulson) is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.”

Hold Your Breath is rated “R” for “some violence/disturbing images.”

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Debuting feature film directors Karrie Crouse and Will Joines describe their cinematic inspirations for Hold Your Breath as a bit of Kubrick’s The Shining and The Others with the visual panache of Malick’s Days of Heaven. After seeing the Searchlight film, which had its world premiere as one of the Toronto Film Festival’s Special Presentations last month and will begin streaming Friday on Hulu, I thought more of another movie, now 40 years old. Places in the Heart won Sally Field a second Oscar (“You really like me!”) as a widow in Depression-era North Texas trying to survive the elements threatening her farm and her two young children.

I also thought a bit about the great Todd Haynes 1995 drama Safe, with Julianne Moore hiding behind a gas mask to avoid the dangers in our environment. This film falls short of those but is memorable enough to make an impression all its own.

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In Hold Your Breath, newly minted Tony winner Sarah Paulson plays Margaret, a woman of the land who is going it alone without her husband who has left to go look for work. She is bringing up her two young daughters, 12-year-old Rose (Amiah Miller) and 7-year-old deaf Ollie (Alona Jane Robbins), following the scarlet fever death of her other daughter, Ada. Set right in the heart of the Dust Bowl in 1930s Oklahoma (New Mexico stands in for the location), Margaret is battling nature’s elements of constant dust storms, not to mention famine, disease and death all around.

There are the few townspeople she has to keep her sane for the most part as their homestead, a sparsely furnished house (Tim Grimes is the production designer), sits alone in the wilderness of this barren landscape, the kind of place you might easily go mad in. And that is exactly what we slowly witness in the case of Margaret, who is also dealing with a mysterious stranger, Wallace Grady (The Bear double Emmy winner Ebon Moss-Bachrach), a self-described preacher and healer who does in fact profess he has “cured” Rose’s chronic nosebleeds and promises to make Ollie hear again. He is a bit of a rainmaker and an increasingly menacing presence who begins to haunt Margaret, especially as he claims to know much about her husband.

Margaret also has a sister-in-law (Annaleigh Ashford) initially going through as much if not more turmoil with her family and need to survive. But as Margaret emerges from her own darkness, she seems to descend further into madness in a way that she is seeing dangerous visions far more frequently as strange things happen — or do they?

This is all very much in the terrifying psychological-thriller mode, a subtle horror film in which the environment is a key villain, the killer dust seemingly turning into the much-feared fictional “Grey Man.” It is a pressure cooker all too easily consuming Margaret. Crouse (who also wrote the screenplay) and Joines succeed best here in creating a landscape of sheer terror due to the intensity of dust, sensationally rendered by visual effects wizards Dale Fay and Werner Hahnlein, with the help of cinematographer Zoe White’s haunting images. Although not a typical horror film, this is a far more quiet fright sparked by Mother Nature but playing with the utmost fears of our main characters.

Paulson again proves she is one of the best out there, making us believe situations that might seem far-fetched in lesser hands as she holds, however wobbly, the flag for motherhood. Well cast are the kids, notably Miller as Rose, the older daughter who at first is under her mother’s protection before becoming the protector herself for sister Ollie, played by the exceptional young deaf actress Robbins who nails the role. Ashford has some choice eerie moments, and Moss-Bachrach knows how to get inside a con man.

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The filmmakers also were inspired by a Ken Burns documentary set in the same kind of environment and thought they could use that germ of an idea to expand into this fictional story. The script was written in 2019, before the pandemic, but this story proves timely with characters talking behind masks in order to avoid what is blowing about outside and inside their heads. It serves as a nice metaphor as well as providing a few jump-scares, but is more psychological than anything that will make you actually hold your breath. Nevertheless, it’s impressively shot and certainly worth seeing just for the atmospherics on display, and the ever-wonderful Paulson.

Producers are Alix Madigan and Lucas Joaquin.

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Title: Hold Your Breath
Distributor: Searchlight Pictures
Directors: Karrie Crouse, Will Joines
Screenwriter: Karrie Crouse
Cast: Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford, Alona Jane Robbins, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Arron Shiver
Release date: October 3, 2024 (streaming on Hulu)
Rating: R
Running time: 1 hr 34 mins

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Hell hath no fury like a mother protecting her children. Kicking off the spooky season is the upcoming nature horror flick Hold Your Breath, following a family whose lives are endangered by both seen and unseen forces. Set in 1930s rural Oklahoma during the Great Depression, Emmy-winning actress Sarah Paulson stars as Margaret Bellum, a mother of two who lives in a deserted farmhouse far from modern civilization. Trapped by the harsh Dust Bowl, and the mysterious arrival of a murderous drifter, Margaret and her daughters must survive their way through whatever comes their way.

However, it seems that the danger isn’t just coming from the outside. Inside their dainty little home, Margaret is plagued by visions of her painful past, harming her as she descends into madness with her two children in the background as scared witnesses. With the movie right around the corner, here’s everything we know so far about Hold Your Breath.

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A middling psychological thriller in which Paulson does a lot of heavy lifting, and also sweeping.

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Does 'Hold Your Breath' Have a Release Date?
Sarah Paulson standing outside with her hand on her chest in Hold Your Breath.Image via Searchlight Pictures
Hold Your Breath will be released on October 3, 2024. Previously, the rural horror flick had its official debut in the Special Presentations section at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2024. The horror film joins a seasonally appropriate slate of titles arriving on the first weekend of October, including the Salem's Lot reboot, the sci-fi horror flick It's What's Inside, and the found-footage anthology film V/H/S/Beyond.

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Where Is 'Hold Your Breath' Streaming?
Sarah Paulson, looking worried, as Margaret in Hold Your BreathImage via Searchlight Pictures
While Hold Your Breath is a Searchlight Pictures production, the period horror film will be forgoing a theatrical release and will instead be heading straight to Hulu.

For those who don’t have a Hulu subscription yet, audiences can opt for the ad-supported plan, which goes for just $7.99 per month (or $79.99 per year). However, be informed that the price is set to increase to $9.99 monthly and $99.99 annually starting October 17, 2024.

For those who hate ads, you can choose the No Ads plan, which offers uninterrupted streaming for $17.99 a month. Just like the ad-supported plan, the pricing for the No Ads plan is set to increase to $18.99 on October 18, 2024).

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Watch the Trailer for 'Hold Your Breath'

Hulu released the official trailer for Hold Your Breath on September 9, bringing audiences all the way to 1930s Oklahoma during the plight of the Great Depression. Mother Margaret lives with her two young daughters in a shabby home trapped by the Dust Bowl. With debris constantly flying into their house and their air polluted, enduring these conditions in the American prairie lands isn’t easy for the family. But as the trailer progresses, Margaret has something more sinister to be more concerned about. Traumatized by hallucinations of her past, Margaret senses that a murderous drifter is lurking within the dust. An old-school thriller with an environmental twist, Margaret and her children must protect themselves from both the dust and the drifter, as “If you breathe him in, he’ll make you do terrible things”.

On September 27, Searchlight Pictures shared a brief clip from the film, featuring Paulson’s Margaret and Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s character, the mysterious, soft-spoken preacher Wallace Grady. Margaret laments about a traumatic event when she was separated from her children during a quarantine, and cries over the lengths she took to get back to her children. Wallace, a man of faith, tells her that no matter what happens in this world, she will meet them again in the afterlife for eternity. While Margaret tries to gulp in the preacher’s words, a part of her can’t help but slightly refute his beliefs. The sneak peek not only presents an in-depth look into Margaret and Wallace but also how themes of motherhood and religion are brought up in Hold Your Breath.

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Who Stars in 'Hold Your Breath'?

Paulson stars as Margaret Bellum, a woman living in rural Oklahoma with her two children. With her husband out of the area to find proper work, Margaret is left to tend the farm and take care of their daughters, Rose and Ollie. Following the aftermath of a heartbreaking incident, Margaret is overly protective of her daughters. When news of the drifter starts haunting their home, Margaret does everything she can to keep everyone safe, all while attempting to stay sane despite her sanity breaking through. Paulson recently snagged a 2024 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her role as Toni Lafayette in Broadway’s “Appropriate”.

Playing Margaret’s 14-year-old Rose Bellum is Amiah Miller. Noticing Margaret’s highs and lows, Rose can’t help but carry the family burden as she witnesses her mother slowly descending into a downward spiral. Despite being meek and initially hapless, Rose will have to make a critical decision as a daughter and a sister. Miller most recently starred in the feature film My Best Friend’s Exorcism and David Oyelowo’s directorial debut feature The Water Man. Meanwhile, starring as Rose’s deaf younger sister Ollie Bellum is Alona Jane Robbins. Also deaf in real life, Robbins, together with the help of ASL Dialogue Coach/Consultant Anne Tomasetti, ensures her character communicates with signs from back in the 1930s, staying truthful to the historical setting.

Annaleigh Ashford stars as Esther Smith, Margaret’s sister-in-law. Just like Margaret, she too shoulders her own trauma. Following the loss of her husband, Margaret hits rock bottom, ultimately affecting her two sons. With a strong conviction of God, Esther slowly sheds her sweet demeanor and reveals something more antagonistic throughout the movie. Ashford is currently in production on the true crime drama series Happy Face. Lastly, Moss-Bachrach stars as Wallace Grady, a self-professed healer who’s been tending to Rose’s bouts of nosebleeds and promises to “fix” Ollie’s hearing problems. Coming to town with a savior-like identity, Wallace has his own dark secrets. The Emmy Award-winning actor is best known for his portrayal of the volatile yet vulnerable Cousin Richie from the hit series The Bear. He’s currently poised to star in the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps film.

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What Is 'Hold Your Breath' About?
Amiah Miller, looking worried, as Rose in Hold Your BreathImage via Searchlight Pictures
Check out the official synopsis for Hold You Breath:

“Oklahoma, 1930s. The Bellum family house rests in a valley of dirt as clouds of dust blot out the sun. Margaret (Sarah Paulson) and her two daughters, Rose (Amiah Miller) and Ollie (Alona Jane Robbins), tend to their sparse farm while Margaret’s husband has left in pursuit of work. As they struggle to survive the punishing Dust Bowl environment, a mysterious stranger (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) arrives, threatening all they know and love. But is the threat a closer one?”

Following in the footsteps of Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Alexandre Aja’s Never Let Go, Hold Your Breath ventures to explore what motherhood looks like in the face of peril and sinister danger. Every day, mothers carry the responsibility of ensuring the safety and security of their children, no matter what their conditions are. Taking that theme up a notch, Hold Your Breath seeks to redefine the concept of motherhood on less-than-fertile grounds, a result of their poor ecosystem, and a mysterious foe lurking in the area. While Margaret’s trauma plays a role in the decisions she makes, it appears her decisions themselves are influenced by the conditions thrown in her way. Margaret is not just a victim of her personal tragedies, but also the destructive environment that not only torments her physically, but mentally.

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Who Is Making 'Hold Your Breath'?
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, looking out the window, as Wallace in Hold Your BreathImage via Searchlight Pictures
Hold Your Breath is brought to Hulu by co-directors and screenwriter Karrie Crouse and co-director Will Joines. Crouse and Joines previously worked together on the short sci-fi horror film Propagation, which was chosen to screen at the Hammer Museum as part of the FLUX Screening series. Their short went on to play in competition at the SXSW Film Festival and Palm Springs ShortFest.

Lucas Joaquin joins the project as producer, with Zoë White as director of photography. A founding member of the production company Secret Engine, Joaquin recently worked on films such as Andrew Semans’ Resurrection, Karen Cinorre’s Mayday, and Braden King’s The Evening Hour. Meanwhile, White’s TV credits include The Handmaid’s Tale, Werewolf by Night, and Westworld.

Production designer Tim Grimes builds 1930s rural Oklahoma to life, while visual effects' supervisor on set Dale Fay concocts the Dust Bowl to screens. Having previously worked on The Marsh King’s Daughter, Grimes has also worked on films like Encounter and Antlers. Meanwhile, Fay is best known for his work on the series The Last Halloween, Defying Gravy, and most recently, Yellowstone.

Lastly, ASL Dialogue Coach and Consultant Tomasetti rounds up the main team. A deaf actor herself, Tomasetti is a nationally Certified Deaf Interpreter (CDI), and a 19-year Theater Interpreter Director/Advisor/Interpreter for Hands On. Tomasetti has worked on more than 90 Broadway and Off-Broadway stage productions.

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Set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s in Oklahoma, this psychological horror-thriller follows a woman who becomes convinced that a dark, malevolent force threatens her family. As dust storms rage outside, paranoia and fear build inside the house, blurring the line between reality and delusion.

Release Date
October 3, 2024
Director
Karrie Crouse , Will Joines
Cast
Sarah Paulson , Amiah Miller , Annaleigh Ashford , Alona Jane Robbins , Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Runtime
94 Minutes
Main Genre
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Sarah Paulson is traveling back in time for her latest horror installment.

The “American Horror Story” staple leads thriller “Hold Your Breath,” which is set in Oklahoma in the 1930s amid the region’s horrific dust storms — as if the Depression wasn’t depressing enough. Paulson’s character Margaret is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family as she grieves a loss and tries to protect her daughter.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Annaleigh Ashford, Amiah Miller, and Bill Heck co-star.

The film was announced in 2022 and was originally titled “Dust.”

Will Joines and Karrie Crouse (“Westworld”) co-directed and co-wrote the horror film. Crouse’s script was developed in the Sundance Writers’ Lab. The duo previously collaborated on short film “Propagation.”

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Paulson told People that she researched the ’30s to embrace its historical accuracy. Part of her education was watching Ken Burns’ “Dust Bowl” documentary to prepare for the role.

“The movie, the unraveling, takes us into a different space, but the reality, the foundational circumstance of the movie, is one of a real American horror,” Paulson said. “This idea that you couldn’t even leave your home, and then even inside your home you couldn’t prevent the dust from getting inside.”

Paulson said “Hold Your Breath” is “not a slasher movie” — it is more so about the connection between a mother and daughter.

“It is really, at its core, an emotional story about a woman who is desperate to keep her children safe,” Paulson, who also executive produces, said. “When you’re talking about a descent into madness, potentially, you always think about control and some of what happens when the spiral starts to unspool. The minute Margaret can no longer stop the dust from getting inside the house, the minute she can no longer feed her family because the cows got nothing to eat, the more things get more desperate and desperate and scarier and scarier for her in terms of their survival — and the more unhinged she becomes because she can’t do anything about it.”

Alix Madigan and Lucas Joaquin produce the Searchlight release.

Paulson previously starred in Searchlight releases like Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” which received the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene.”

“Hold Your Breath” premieres October 3 on Hulu. Check out the trailer below.

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An award-winning actor playing a fiercely, even frighteningly, protective mother guarding her two children from an unspecified malevolence in a remote home. No, I’m not talking about last month’s Halle Berry horror Never Let Go (is anyone still talking about that one?), but rather this month’s Sarah Paulson horror Hold Your Breath, a film that carries surface similarities (as well as a hopelessly generic rollercoaster-warning-esque title). Like that film, it plays with recent genre trends – a remote, pandemic-suited location and the corrosive effect of mental illness – as well as the use of a life-saving rope tied to the home for those who need to leave. And like that film, it’s also a bit of a mess.

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Originally titled Dust, originally set to star Claire Foy and originally intended for a theatrical release, the film arrives at the beginning of Hulu’s month of genre fare, dubbed Huluween. It’s far classier than that categorisation would suggest (especially when compared with films like cheapo evil pumpkin horror Carved), a handsomely made 1930s-set thriller that, unlike most streaming offerings today, also looks like it could stretch to a cinema screen. Added class also comes from Paulson, one of the most reliable small-screen and stage actors we have, who hasn’t really had enough big-screen chances at least not as lead. While Hold Your Breath isn’t quite able to keep up with her, it’s at least a deserving and all-consuming showcase, the actor exhaustively giving it her all.

She plays Margaret, a mother on the edge, mentally and literally, living in one of Oklahoma’s most stricken areas during the devastating dust storms of the 30s, hit hard by the drought and struggling to provide for her two daughters. The bleak conditions and the lingering grief from the death of a third daughter has made Margaret a whirlwind of nerves and neuroses, paranoid that the dust is making them sick and plagued by recurring nightmares. The townsfolk gossip about desperate drifters taking advantage of father-less households while her kids tell stories about a boogeyman made of dust, facts and fiction starting to curdle for Margaret. Is there someone out there, or is it her mind playing tricks?

Co-directors Karrie Crouse and Will Joines rush through the establishing scenes with an overreliance on montage, the clipped pace giving the impression that much was cut (at 94 minutes, it feels a little too short). The pair do manage to build an effective sense of unease, the scenario giving us unavoidable Covid-era anxiety as the family fear the impact of allowing too much dust in the house, nervously covering gaps to the outside and wearing masks to protect themselves. While it’s not exactly Twisters, the menacing swirl of the storm feels surprisingly grand and imposing, a foreboding atmosphere not one of the film’s problems.

Those arise more from the scattered plotting as our hold on the film unravels along with our lead character’s grip on reality, as she encounters a mysterious preacher (played by The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach), struggles with her reckless sister (Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford) and starts to question where the real danger is coming from. Her fraught relationship with the preacher does give the film one of the finest moments of suspense, involving a letter from afar, but his presence in the film feels too truncated to have much of an impact. It’s one of many strands in a story that could have afforded a tighter focus and it all dissolves into nothing when the finale comes into view, any questioning over what is and isn’t real fading into fatigue. Where we end up at is of no great surprise and the beats of the reveal feel far too over-familiar at this particular trauma horror moment.

Paulson’s commitment is unwavering, and it’s refreshing to see her in genre material a little more grounded than what the various American Horror Stories have given her, but she’s an actor in search of better material and, sadly, Hold Your Breath means that search is ongoing.

Hold Your Breath is available on Hulu in the US and Disney+ elsewhere
Sarah Paulson is serving up some jump scares in her new movie "Hold Your Breath."

According to the official synopsis, "In 1930s Oklahoma, amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman (Paulson) is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family."

In the first trailer (above) released by Searchlight Pictures, Paulson's children read about "the grey man," who, "if you breathe him in, he'll make you do terrible things."

"The Bear" star Ebon Moss-Bachrach also stars, along with Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford and Alona Jane Robbins.

It's directed by Karrie Crouse and Will Joines. Crouse also wrote the script.

Just in time for spooky season, "Hold Your Breath" debuts on Hulu October 3.

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Searchlight Pictures has unveiled the trailer for the upcoming Hold Your Breath today, teasing period horror that’s set to debut on Hulu this Halloween season.

Hold Your Breath premieres exclusively on Hulu October 3, 2024.

The film’s synopsis: “In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s horrific dust storms, a woman (Sarah Paulson) is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.”

Sarah Paulson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Amiah Miller and Annaleigh Ashford lead the cast of the Hulu horror-thriller from directors Karrie Crouse and William Joines based on the screenplay from Crouse.

Check out the new trailer below and look for Hold Your Breath this Huluween.

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Does an invisible presence haunt one family? The new film “ Hold Your Breath” offers up a frightening possibility set during a historical tragedy. It takes place in 1930s Oklahoma, an area within the Dust Bowl. This decade saw landscapes devastated by drought and erosion — causing crop loss as well as powerful dust storms. Those storms present a haunting backdrop for the project. ‘Breath’ comes from co-directors Will Joines and Karrie Crouse. Crouse also acts as screenwriter for ‘Breath.’

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Sarah Paulson stars as the beleaguered woman balancing her fears with the skepticism of others. This acclaimed actress has led numerous series including “Ratched” and “American Crime Story.” Additionally, she’s a stage veteran who won a 2024 Tony for Best Leading Actress in a Play. ‘Breath’ also stars Annaleigh Ashford, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Amiah Miller, and Bill Heck. This isn’t the first time Moss-Bachrach and Paulson have worked together recently. Paulson appeared on one episode of Hulu’s “The Bear.” The series has proven to be a hit, with many singling out Moss-Bachrach for his portrayal of Richie. Critical acclaim would lead to the actor winning the 2023 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

The film’s official synopsis:

“In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s horrific dust storms, a woman (Sarah Paulson) is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.”

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Alix Madigan and Lucas Joaquin serve as producers on “Hold Your Breath.” The film premieres on Hulu October 3. Get your first look at the trailer below.

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