2018 · thriller · crime · horror
Bad Samaritan
Directed by Dean Devlin1h 51m2018
A thief makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are no longer how he expected.
Our read: Bad Samaritan (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · crime · horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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