Director Karyn Kusama Goes her Own Way

Director Karyn Kusama is one of Hollywood’s boldest voices. Her films are visually arresting, emotionally taxing and riveting to the last frame. Whether it’s a pugilist drama like Girlfight or a horror film like The Invitation, Kusama’s gifts bend genres to her will.

Her most recent film, Destroyer, was the year’s most unsettling crime thriller—by a mile. Starring Nicole Kidman in another impressive,

First Destroyer Trailer Reveals Nicole Kidman Like You’ve Never Seen her Before

There are three very good reasons to be excited about Destroyer. It’s from The Invitation filmmaker Karyn Kusama, it stars Nicole Kidman as an LAPD detective haunted by her past, and it’s from regular hit-factory Annapurna Pictures. Kidman stars as Erin Bell, a messy, messed up cop whose terrifying undercover work is dredged up afresh in the form of a gang leader who is back on the scene.