Absurd
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme slasher / cult, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
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The shape of Absurd
What watching it is actually like.
“You want over-the-top 80s Italian slasher with a regenerating mutant priest killer and creative kills.”
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The reading.
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