2018 · thriller · horror · comedy
Assassination Nation
Directed by Sam Levinson1h 48m2018
After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American town, the townspeople spiral into madness, with four high school seniors at the center of the maelstrom.
Our read: Assassination Nation (2018) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive thriller · horror · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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