A big thanks to Riikka for making us some caps from Trauma! Such beautiful caps! Warning - don’t look at them if you don’t want the end to be spoiled or if you’re easily squimish. I’ve also added some recent even scans. More soon, but for now enjoy!

DVD Reviewer reports that Warner Home Video will release Trauma directed by Marc Evans on the 21st February. BAFTA and Emmy Award nominee Colin Firth stars with Mena Suvari in this chilling psychological thriller with support from Naomi Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Sean Harris, Brenda Fricker and Ken Cranham.

Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident; Ben’s (Firth) world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later he is out of hospital, and attempting to rebuild his life. He moves house and is befriended by Charlotte (Suvari), his beautiful, young neighbour. But all is not what it seems and haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality…

When a bereaved man, can no longer make sense of his situation he retreats into a delusional world where he cannot distinguish between what is real and what is not. In following Ben’s story, the film deals with many common themes - grief, loneliness and denial.

Extras are listed as an audio commentary by director Evans and Colin Firth, a ‘Making of’ featurette and the trailer. Presented with Dolby surround 5.1 and anamorphic widescreen it will be priced at £15.99.

Firth.com and Nordiskfilm.fi reports that Trauma will be released on DVD & video in Scandinavia on Nov 11 and Denmark on Dec 1. Look forward to it!

Trauma director Marc Evans answered that question at the Trauma Press Conference on August 24, 2004 in London.

[MARC EVANS] WHY WAS MENA SUVARI CAST AS CHARLOTTE?
Just her quality, her otherness. We wanted this character to be a potential angel in Ben’s life and she’s a well-meaning neighbour, beautiful and different. Mena has all those things in spades, but she also has a dark streak and is interested in this kind of material. She’s great to work with. And as for the American thing, the part wasn’t written as an American, but when she said she was interested I saw no reason to make her English and in some ways it was an advantage, as she has to talk about crystals and alternative medicine, and in a funny sort of way that seems to come more easily from an American character than perhaps an English one. It seemed to sit very easily with her. (Found at Firth.com)

Cheerleader, drug addict, ‘angel’ next door: Mena Suvari’s played them all. Andrew Gumbel meets a Hollywood risk-taker

Mena Suvari has a fine, full-lipped mouth, which was certainly one reason why Marc Evans, the director of the new psychological horror film Trauma, decided to show it painted throughout with shiny blood-red lipstick. Maybe it was her mouth, too, that induced him to have someone thrust a large spider between her character’s lips.

A mean trick to play on a pleasant young actress, I couldn’t help thinking as I met up with Suvari at a Zen tea house in West Hollywood. She was polite, impeccably turned out in designer jeans and an embroidered cotton shirt, and poised in a way that did not immediately suggest a ready familiarity with hairy arachnids shoved under her tongue. So, naturally, I had to ask her about it. Continue Reading…