Mortal Kombat‘s First Fatality-Filled Trailer Looks Just Ridiculous Enough

Mortal Kombat hasn’t exactly had the best film legacy of any videogame franchise. The first film, which kicked off Paul W.S. Anderson’s dominance of the videogame adaptation market back in 1995, was pretty silly but ultimately fun—and serviceable enough that Anderson kept getting gigs, including the massive Resident Evil franchise and his recent Monster Hunter. Every MK film after that, though…well, those are best left forgotten or at least, knowingly hate-watched. Now Simon McQuoid is making his directorial debut with an R-rated reboot of the franchise—and it just dropped a fatality-filled first trailer.
That R rating is important: Previous films have been PG-13, presumably targeting the younger crowd that movie execs thought were the only folks playing games. This trailer doesn’t mess around with that nonsense, though. The kills are big, nasty and just as over-the-top as MK diehards would want—and the plot’s just as ridiculous. Take a look: