Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
Sombre, breathless, extreme fantasy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor. Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.
Our read · Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive fantasy · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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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