1981 · slasher · cult · gore
Absurd
Directed by Joe D'Amato1h 34m1981
A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.
Our read: Absurd (1981) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive slasher · cult · gore entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme slasher / cult, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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