The Unfamiliar
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, measured thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A British Army doctor comes back from a war, thinking that she has PTSD only to discover that there is a more daunting malevolence at work making the life that she knew unfamiliar.
Our read · The Unfamiliar (2020) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Unfamiliar
What watching it is actually like.
“You want creepy supernatural horror invading a family after war trauma.”
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The reading.
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