WATCH: THE BEGUILED Intrigues in Sexy, Suspense-Filled Premiere Trailer

Universal Pictures and Focus Features have just premiered the first trailer for director Sofia Coppola’s new suspense thriller "The Beguiled" and boy is it a doozy. It has sex, suspense, intrigue, and seemingly vengeful and deadly women. "The Beguiled" takes place during the American Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events. View the trailer below:

The film is an official competition entry to this year's Cannes Film Festival, the film's screenplay is adapted from Thomas Cullinan’s original novel of the same name. The film headlines Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning.

"The Beguiled" is distributed in the Philippines by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures and opens in Philippine cinemas this July 2017.