Snakes on a Train
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Under a powerful Mayan curse, snakes are hatched inside a young woman, slowly devouring her from within. Her only chance for survival is a powerful shaman who lives across the border. With only hours to live, she jumps on a train headed for Los Angeles. Unfortunately for the passengers aboard, they are now trapped, soon to be victims of these flesh-eating vipers.
Our read · Snakes on a Train (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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