Emily Blunt Is Broken in the First 'The Girl on the Train' Trailer

When Paula Hawkins’s novel The Girl on the Train became the publishing sensation of last year, a lot of people compared it to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl.

Now that the first trailer for the film adaptation is online, those comparisons will likely continue. (Watch it above.) As directed by Tate Taylor (The Help), Girl on the Train looks as sensual, eerie, and deliberately cryptic about the whereabouts of a missing woman as David Fincher’s take on Gone Girl did. In this case, the gone girl in question is a nanny (Haley Bennett) who happens to work for the ex-husband (Justin Theroux) of the alcoholic and perpetually discombobulated Rachel (Emily Blunt). In the novel, Rachel gets embroiled in the mystery when she sees something incriminating from a passing commuter train, but her memories are scrambled by a booze-induced blackout — and the dawning horror that she may be more involved than she realized.

If you’ve read Hawkins’s book, the teaser probably looks a lot like what was in your mind’s eye as you tore through its pages. (Though the movie shifts the story to New York from the novel’s London setting — a somewhat controversial move when it was announced last year.) It definitely seems like Blunt — who, in addition to Theroux and Bennett, co-stars opposite Allison Janney, Rebecca Ferguson, and Luke Evans — has thoroughly immersed herself in the psychological hell that Rachel endures throughout the twisty story.

“I’m afraid of myself,” Blunt’s Rachel whispers in the trailer. We’re a little afraid of you too, Emily Blunt. But in a good way.

The Girl on the Train opens in theaters on Oct. 7.