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THE ROOM Official Trailer (2020)

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A haunted house with a catch: anything it gives you eventually turns to dust.

The official trailer for The Room dropped ahead of the film’s rollout into wider international release, giving audiences their clearest look yet at director Christian Volckman’s English-language psychological thriller. Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens star as a couple who abandon city life for a crumbling estate in upstate New York, only to discover the house’s real inheritance is a room that can conjure anything they wish for. The catch, as the trailer makes clear, is that nothing it makes is built to last outside those four walls.

• Olga Kurylenko plays Kate and Kevin Janssens plays Matt, a couple who relocate from the city to a run-down historic house in upstate New York.
• Matt uncovers a hidden room wired with root-like electrical circuitry capable of materializing anything the couple wishes for, from artwork and cash to a child the couple names Shane.
• The film debuted on the festival circuit in 2019 — including the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) in April and Sitges Film Festival in October — ahead of European theatrical dates and its wider 2020 international release.

The Premise Behind the Wishing Room

Volckman, who co-wrote the script, builds the film’s tension around a simple but brutal rule: the room grants any material desire, but whatever it produces decays into dust the moment it’s taken outside the house. Kate and Matt start small, testing the room with fine clothing and expensive food, but the novelty wears off fast. After two prior miscarriages, Kate goes further, secretly wishing for a baby boy the couple names Shane — a decision that turns the back half of the story into a fight over whether the boy can survive, and be kept safe, once he starts to grow up.

Anything the room creates ages to dust within moments of being carried past the front door.

That mechanic forces Matt into detective mode. His digging into the house’s past turns up a prior murder on the property and a surviving suspect, identified only as “John Doe” — later named John Flanders — who’s being held in a psychiatric hospital. The trailer leans hard into that thread, framing the film less as a haunted-house story and more as a slow-burn mystery about who built the room and why.

Kurylenko and Janssens Carry the Weight

Kurylenko, best known to genre audiences from Quantum of Solace and Oblivion, takes the lead as Kate, and the trailer positions her miscarriage history and secret wish for Shane as the emotional engine of the film. Janssens, as Matt, is the one pulling at the threads of the house’s violent past — the character whose investigation drives the plot’s back half once the wishing stops feeling like a gift. Fans who track upcoming genre releases the way they follow titles like the best upcoming horror movies of 2020 and 2021 will recognize the setup: a supernatural rule with a hidden cost, and two leads who don’t realize how deep that cost runs until it’s too late to undo.

From Festival Rounds to Wider Release

Produced by Les Films du Poisson and Versus Production, The Room didn’t arrive cold. It played BIFFF in Brussels back in April 2019 and Sitges in October 2019 before moving into a theatrical run across European territories late in the year, setting up the wider international release that this trailer is now promoting. That festival-first path put it in the same conversation as other genre titles building buzz on the circuit before a broader push, a pattern similar to how thrillers like AVA worked their way toward wider audiences in the same window.

What the trailer sells hardest is the dread underneath the fantasy — a couple who get everything they ask for and slowly realize the price wasn’t optional. With Shane growing older on screen and the John Flanders thread still unresolved by the time the trailer cuts to black, the film is clearly saving its worst revelations for the theater, not the preview.