Bait
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / survival, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.
Our read · Bait (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive horror · survival entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Bait
What watching it is actually like.
“You want ridiculous tsunami-shark survival mayhem inside a flooded supermarket tonight.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if CGI shark gore and drowning panic are too stressful for your crowd.
The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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