With its debut teaser released ahead of the film’s world premiere at Tubi FrightFest 2026, Nervous marks Abner Pastoll’s latest project.
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What the new teaser reveals
The teaser leans into atmosphere over explicit plot details, pairing a hypnotic beat with shots of a neon-lit club as the film’s cast encounters one another. The official synopsis places Sarah (Sarah Bolger) and her husband Sungsoo (Sungsoo Yune) in a Korean countryside home, aiming to salvage a crumbling marriage. A strange secret surfaces—a vinyl record that plays nothing but silence—and after listening, Sarah begins to lose her ability to hear male voices, narrowing her sense of reality. She grows isolated from Sungsoo and is drawn toward their neighbor, Eunbyeol (Ko Asung), whose provocative presence unsettles and draws Sarah in. As Sarah’s fixation on the vinyl deepens, paranoia intensifies, hallucinations sharpen, and dangerous desires spiral, forcing a confrontation about whether the horrors are psychological or something far more sinister.
The teaser itself is brief and hypnotic, offering flashes of bloody hands and other sinister imagery as the cast meets eyes in a club setting, signaling a psychological horror with a sensual, destabilizing edge.
What we know about Nervous
Nervous is written and directed by Abner Pastoll, reuniting with star Sarah Bolger. Ko Asung, known for parts in Bong Joon Ho’s The Host and Snowpiercer, co-stars alongside Sungsoo Yune, whose work includes Smugglers and Live Stream. Pastoll co-wrote the screenplay with Richard Hobley. The project is produced by Junyoung Jang and Pastoll, with a new original score by Matthew Pusti. Nervous is a Korean-UK co-production from February Films and Story Robot, shot entirely on location in and around Seoul.
Release date and festival plan
The film will premiere at Tubi FrightFest on 27 August 2026 at the Odeon Leicester Square. Following its premiere, Nervous will travel the festival circuit with screenings at Lisbon’s MOTELX on 4 September and Germany’s Fantasy Filmfest on 7 September.
