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The trailer for The Housemaid, starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, is out now – check it out below.

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The Paul Feig-directed psychological thriller is set for release on December 26 and is based on the 2022 novel of the same name by Freida McFadden. Sweeney plays Millie Calloway, a housemaid for a wealthy family headed by Andrew and Nina Winchester, played by Brandon Sklenar and Amanda Seyfried.

The trailer, shared by Lionsgate yesterday (September 16), begins with Millie being greeted by Nina as she arrives for an interview and being shown her room as an unsettling version of Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Please Please Please’ plays, interspersed with an ominous scene of someone banging on a wooden door.

As Millie settles into her role with the Winchesters, the trailer takes a darker turn as she sees behind their image as the perfect family, with a series of twists in store for the housemaid. Millie is offered a lock for her door and finds a cabinet full of medicine, while we see police at the home, a disturbing dollhouse, and Nina screaming in her car.

The official synopsis reads: “The film plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an illusion, and nothing is as it seems. Trying to escape her past, Millie accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester.

“But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous — a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power. Behind the Winchesters’ closed doors lies a world of shocking twists that will leave you guessing until the very end.”

Sweeney said that she became a fan of the novel, explaining at CinemaCon (via Variety): “I could not put [the book] down. I ended up reading all three [books in the series] in one week. There’s characters that are flawed, and they are messy.”

Feig said earlier this year, “Tension and scares and comedy are so wrapped together. It was a dream come true.”

Rebecca Sonnenshine adapted the novel, with Feig telling People that it’s a “faithful interpretation”, though with “a good number of added surprises along the way.”

Meanwhile, an HBO executive has confirmed that teen drama Euphoria – in which Sweeney plays Cassie Howard – will officially be coming back for a third season next year.