Watch: First First Clip & Footage From Ben Wheatley's ‘High-Rise’ Starring Tom Hiddleston, Elisabeth Moss & More

The narrative for Ben Wheatley's adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s “High-Rise” is all over the place. Reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival were decidedly mixed (including ours), but the response from the more genre-friendly Fantastic Fest were much more favorable. As the film makes its premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, it appears to be receiving another uptick of positive reviews (see our man in London’s tweet below). And as Wheatley is the filmmaker behind genius genre films both horrifying and hilarious, like "Kill List" and "Sightseers," those of us who have yet to see the film are still hyper curious.

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Here’s the BFI long-form synopsis:

A savage and utterly brilliant satire of both 1960s social idealism and the Thatcherite values that undermined it, High-Rise opens with a dishevelled man (the ever-sublime Tom Hiddleston) eating...