2011 · horror · thriller · drama
Absentia
Directed by Mike Flanagan1h 31m2011
Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. Tricia is reluctant, always holding out hope, but Callie is practical and wants her to move on. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house.
Our read: Absentia (2011) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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