Excellent New UK Trailer for ‘Pillion’ Co-Starring Melling & Skarsgård
by Alex Billington
October 8, 2025
Source: YouTube
“That’s your boyfriend? How’d you get a man like that?” The UK distributor Picturehouse has just revealed their excellent official trailer for Pillion, the highly acclaimed, kinky, sensitive new film directed by Harry Lighton. This premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival earlier in the year, and is playing next at the New York Film Festival before hitting theaters next February (in the US). We posted the US teaser just last week – now we have a full UK trailer with more charming footage. Based on the book “Box Hill” written by Adam Mars-Jones. A timid, directionless man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. Starring Alexander Skarsgård as the dom and Harry Melling as the sub in what is being described as a “sexy, hilarious, feel good” tale of BDSM and queer sexuality. Also in the cast are Lesley Sharp, Douglas Hodge, Anthony Welsh, & Jake Shears. “Comic without ever descending into judgment of its characters, Pillion is a beguiling inquiry into the social and sexual performances of masculinity, featuring fearless work from Melling and Skarsgård.” This will be opening in the UK starting in November, but everyone in the US will have to wait until February. Best trailer for this flick so far! I’m sold.
Here’s the official UK trailer for Harry Lighton’s film Pillion, direct from Picturehouse’s YouTube:
You can rewatch the US teaser trailer for Harry Lighton’s Pillion film right here for even more footage.
From NYFF: “In his unorthodox queer romance, first-time feature director Harry Lighton has fashioned something highly improbable: a film about a sadomasochistic relationship that is both transgressive and disarming. Harry Melling plays the mild Colin, whose gayness is happily accepted by his parents (Lesley Sharp & Douglas Hodge) and who is most extroverted when singing in a barbershop quartet. When this sweet-natured square catches the eye of strapping, leather-clad biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) at the local pub, he finds himself entering a submissive role—both domestic & erotic—for the inscrutable beauty who brings him both satisfaction and confusion, pain and pleasure. As their affair continues, Colin must decide what he wants and needs—and who he really is.” Pillion is written and directed by British filmmaker Harry Lighton, making his first feature film after a few other short films including Wren Boys. Adapted from the book “Box Hill” written by Adam Mars-Jones. Produced by Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton. This initially premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. A24 debuts Lighton’s Pillion film in select US theaters starting sometime February 2026 early next year. So who’s in?