Tubi has shared the official Please Don’t Feed the Children trailer for the upcoming horror thriller starring Downton Abbey vet Michelle Dockery. The project hails from up-and-coming filmmaker Destry Allyn Spielberg, who follows in the footsteps of her Oscar-winning father, Steven Spielberg.
“The film takes place in a not-so-distant future where society contends with a pervasive virus that afflicts the entire adult population,” reads the official synopsis. “After the deadly viral outbreak, a group of orphans flees in search of a new life, only to be taken hostage by a woman hiding a sinister secret.”
Check out the Please Don’t Feed the Children trailer below (watch more trailers):
What happens in the Please Don’t Feed the Children trailer?
The video features Dockery as a sinister and psychotic woman who terrorizes a group of children after letting them into her house. It highlights some of the terrible things that the kids must endure while they try to find a way to escape. The ensemble cast also includes Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul), Zoe Colletti (Only Murders In The Building), Andrew Liner (Ransom Canyon), Dean Scott Vazquez (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) Regan Aliyah (Ironheart), Emma Meisel (Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.), Joshuah Melnick (Saint X) and Vernon Davis (Chariot).
Please Don’t Feed the Children is directed by Destry Allyn Spielberg from a screenplay written by Paul Bertino. This marks Spielberg’s feature directorial debut. It is produced by Jason Dubin, Josh Kesselman, Michael Hagerty, Daniel Ryniker, and Bill Kenwright. Executive producers are Dockery, Phil Hunt Compton, Ross Daniel Negret, Will Clarke, Andy Mayson, Mike Runagall, David Gilbery, Naomi George, Ben Kaye, Steven Schneider, Joe Health, Owen King, Kimberly Atwood, and Atty Cleworth.
Before making her feature-length directorial debut, Spielberg previously directed two short films, including 2019’s Rosie and 2022’s Let Me Go the Right Way. In addition to filmmaking, she also acted in 2020’s I Know This Much Is True for HBO and Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age movie Licorice Pizza.
