The Girl on the Train: Creepy new trailer sees Emily Blunt break down and introduces Justin Theroux

The film adapts Paula Hawkins' best-selling novel of the same name, hailed as the next Gone Girl

Just as Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train was hailed as the perfect literary follow-up to hit Gone Girl, its cinematic adaptation hopes to achieve exactly the same success.

And so our new glimpse at the film brings a trailer pulsating with creepy, voyeur vibes; setting itself as a fascinating modern update on the thrills of Rear Window, one perfectly poised for the commuter age.

"I used to watch this perfect couple," a tearful Emily Blunt confesses. "They were the embodiment of true love." She plays Rachel Watson, who develops a fixation on a beautiful couple, Megan (Haley Bennett) and Scott (Luke Evans); watching them every day from the window of the train she takes to work in New York City.

In them, she reflects on the painful deterioration of her own marriage; with her ex-husband (Justin Theroux) living with his new wife (Rebecca Ferguson) only a few doors down from Megan and Scott. Yet, this all suddenly takes a dramatic turn when Rachel wakes up hungover and covered in bruises, without a single memory of what had happened the night before.

Megan has suddenly gone missing, and Rachel soon becomes invested in her disappearance and her own potential role in it. The film also stars Édgar Ramírez, Allison Janney, Lisa Kudrow, and Laura Prepon; directed by The Help's Tate Taylor.

The Girl on the Train opens in UK cinemas 7 October.