Here’s a Clip from Damien Chazelle’s WHIPLASH

One of the highlights of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, which nabbed both the Audience Award and the jury prize in the U.S. Dramatic competition.  The film stars Miles Teller as a young musician at odds with his ruthless and vicious instructor played by J.K. Simmons.

Sony Pictures Classics released the first clip from the film today, which gives you a little hint as to just how terrible this man is, however when you see the movie, you’ll find he’s much worse.  You can click here to read our full review.

Whiplash opens in theaters October 10th.

Andrew, a promising 19-year-old drummer at a cutthroat Manhattan music conservatory, has little interest in being just a musician. Haunted by his father’s failed writing career and plagued with the fear that mediocrity just might be genetic, Andrew dreams of greatness. Determined not to follow in his father’s footsteps, he practices daily until his hands literally bleed. The pressure of success ratchets into high gear when he is picked to join the school band led by the infamous Terence Fletcher, a brutally savage music instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential. Under Fletcher’s ruthless direction, Andrew begins to pursue perfection at any cost—even his humanity.