Today's Trailer Happy Hour is addicted to the killing, baby

Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where sometimes we just can’t keep our bloodlust in check. Today we’ve got three different flavors of cinematic violence on-deck—from satirical, to dramatic, to low-budget but alluringly shiny—so let’s dive right in.

First, and perhaps most gratuitously: A new red-band trailer for Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation, making its return trip to the THH docket. This new trailer is a lot more revealing—not just in the “buckets of blood and scantily-clad teenage girls” sense—but also in respect to the film’s tone, which eventually pivots into a generational conflict centered on youthful rage, kicked off after a hacker releases tons of private texts and social media info out into the world. It still looks painfully loud and over-the-top, but at least we’re finally getting a glimpse of where the movie’s angry, bloody heart might be.

Next up: The much more somber (if no less brutal) A Prayer Before Dawn, from A24. Starring Joe Cole, and based on a true story, it’s apparently the tale of a guy imprisoned in Thailand, who struggles to find a way to escape persecution and violence by embracing another, more structured kind of violence.

Finally, we’ve got a cheap little visual treat, in the form of the new trailer for indie-sci-fi action flick Blood Machines. The trailer comes with an aggressively tongue-in-cheek plot synopsis (“An artificial intelligence escapes her spaceship to turn into a female ghost and challenges two blade runners to an galactic chase”) but the lurid colors and striking visuals are certainly enough to catch our interest.