2018 · thriller · mystery
A Dark Place
Directed by Simon Fellows1h 29m2018
When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.
Our read: A Dark Place (2018) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded thriller · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
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