Confession of Murder
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
- twisty
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A serial killer reappears 15 years after his murder spree with a book detailing his crimes. The resentful cop who failed to catch him before is assigned to protect him. The families of the victims plan revenge. And as the media circus spirals out of control, a masked man called "J" appears claiming to be the real killer.
Our read · Confession of Murder (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · slasher entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Confession of Murder
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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