Trailers dropped today for one suspenseful and scary crime drama starring Anna Kendrick and one silly slapstick comedy starring Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage.

In Netflix’s Woman of the Hour, Anna Kendrick directs herself in a tense thriller about one woman’s encounter with a serial killer. Kendrick plays Cheryl Bradshaw, an aspiring actress in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Based on a real-life crime story, the film chronicles Bradshaw’s 1978 appearance on The Dating Game, where one bachelor or bachelorette interviews three candidates from behind a screen, choosing one to date based upon the answers given.

The real-life Bradshaw chose serial killer Rodney Alcala, but upon meeting him, chose not to go out with him. Alcala would go on to kill three more women after that. He was later arrested and died in prison in 2021. Several documentary and podcast series have been dedicated to the criminal known as “The Dating Game Killer.”

In the film, the killer is played by Daniel Zovatto and the trailer shows Kendrick’s Bradshaw on an alarming first date with him that ends with her fearing for her life.

Woman of the Hour also stars Tony Hale (Veep), Nicolette Robinson (One Night in Miami…), Pete Holmes (Crashing), Autumn Best (The 4400), Kathryn Gallagher (You) and Kelley Jakle of Kendrick’s Pitch Perfect franchise. 

Woman of the Year premieres on Netflix on October 18th.

On a lighter note, the crimes depicted in Brothers, coming to select theaters and Amazon’s Prime Video, seem more violent, but it’s the cartoonish sort of violence befitting a buddy-slash-roadtrip comedy.

Brothers tells the story of “Moke (Brolin), a reformed criminal trying to live on the straight and narrow, is forced back into the game by his scheming sibling, Jady (Dinklage), with the promise of a one-and-done job that could set them up for life. They embark on a cross-country road trip, dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother Cath (Glenn Close) along the way as they attempt to heal their fractured relationship…before they kill each other,” according to the film’s official synopsis.

The cast includes Brendan Fraser as a corrupt lawman, and an uncredited Marisa Tomei as one of Jady’s associates, Taylour Paige, M. Emmet Walsh, and Jennifer Landon. Max Barbakow (Palm Springs) directs from a script by Macon Blair. and Etan Cohen.

Brothers opens in select theaters on October 10th and streams on Prime Video on October 17th.