The Thompsons
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
Our read · The Thompsons (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · thriller · vampire entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The Thompsons
What watching it is actually like.
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