Netflix’s Woman in Cabin 10 Trailer: Keira Knightley Claims She Saw a Murder

Trailer for The Woman in Cabin 10, Courtesy of Netflix

By all appearances, The Woman in Cabin 10 will be a wholly realistic horror film – don’t expect any haunted houses in this one. Indeed, the titular cabin isn’t a house at all: it’s a room onboard a yacht that’s setting out to sea, filled with some rich, powerful characters. Keira Knightley stars – not as the woman in Cabin 10, but as an award-winning journalist named Laura Blacklock, who presumably inhabits Cabin 9 or 11.

See, all these swanky cruise-goers are embarking upon what one of them admits is “an unusual approach to charity: three days on a luxury yacht.” Laura is here to do a piece on their little philanthropic endeavor. They all seem warm and welcoming at first, but one night she’s awakened by screams that are coming from next door: from Cabin 10. When she gets up and heads out on deck, she can just make out a body floating in the ocean below.

A Deadly Cover-up

Laura tries to alert the crew that someone has fallen overboard, but everybody ignores her – especially when she claims the dead woman came from Cabin 10, which they say has been uninhabited this whole voyage. “Everyone’s accounted for,” a crew member calmly tells her. We see numerous yacht-goers trying to gaslight her about the death she witnessed. But as mentioned above, Laura is a journalist. She knows what she saw, and she’s not going to let it go.

But what will be the price of her persistence? “These people run the world,” warns an indeterminate character (presumably a frightened ally of hers) played by David Ajala. “Don’t piss them off.” The final part of the trailer helpfully visualizes his word of caution with a series of bloodcurdling clips, which suggest that Laura is very close to winding up in the ocean with the woman from Cabin 10.

An Obvious Premise, but Perhaps a Worthwhile Film

So, yeah: This trailer definitely fits that description – a far too commonly applicable one nowadays – of “two-minute rundown of the whole film.” Aside from the simple mystery of why these wealthy cruise members have enacted such a sinister cover-up, The Woman in Cabin 10 doesn’t appear to hold many surprises.

Nonetheless, it appears that there will be plenty to make it worth recommending: a first-rate cast (which also includes Guy Pearce and Kaya Scodelario), the aforementioned mystery’s potential for intrigue, and a setting that is both terrifyingly isolated and deceptively spacious (who knows what hidden rooms this yacht may contain?) If you’re craving a solid genre film this Halloween, stay tuned for The Woman in Cabin 10.