What’s one way to spice up a dystopian thriller from its usual bleak tone, bleaker landscapes, and, bleaker still, a tired gray-on-gray color palate? An unconventional mode of transportation should do the trick. That’s the best thing about “Black Crab,” Netflix‘s latest entry in its long line of dystopia-adjacent projects. But hasn’t this been done before, one may ask, and at a high level? Certainly, but director/co-writer Adam Berg has no plans to swipe from the likes of Bong Joon-ho‘s 2013 extravaganza “Snowpiercer” and its globe-spanning locomotive for his feature debut.

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Netflix is behind a bunch of various genre-focused films and that trend continues with “Black Crab.” The post-thriller will focus on a woman looking to end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.

The streaming giant has released a new trailer of the film directed by Adam Berg with a cast that consists of Noomi Rapace, Jakob Oftebro, Erik Enge, Dar Salim, Ardalan Esmaili, Aliette Opheim, and David Dencik.

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