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Crawl director Alexandre Aja is back for the pulse-pounding Netflix thriller Oxygen. Aja first came to the attention of international audiences with his punishing 2003 horror film High Tension, one of the key movies of the New French Extreme movement of the early '00s. Aja then made the inevitable move to Hollywood for the horror remakes The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha 3D. In 2019 he impressed Quentin Tarantino and many others with his alligator attack movie Crawl, a surprise hit with $91 million taken at the worldwide box office on a modest budget of just $13 million.

Now the most extreme of French horror directors is back with his latest effort, a Netflix thriller starring Inglourious Basterds' Melanie Laurent and Quantum of Solace's Mathieu Amalric. Oxygen (which was previously being called O2) concerns a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic unit with no memory of how she got there, who must solve the mystery of who she is before she runs out of air. See the new teaser trailer for Oxygen in the space below:

Laurent of course is now a filmmaker in her own right, and in fact is soon set to release her latest directorial effort The Nightingale starring Elle and Dakota Fanning in a World War 2 drama based on an acclaimed novel. Oxygen however sees Laurent back in front of the camera for a sure to be tense thriller that, with its set up involving a lone woman trapped in a seemingly inescapable life-threatening situation who must use her wits to survive, clearly recalls the previous Netflix film Gerald's Game from Stephen King and Mike Flanagan. Aja and Laurent's Oxygen is set to hit Netflix itself on May 12, 2021.