2014 · horror · fantasy · action
Black Butler
Directed by Kentaro Otani, Keiichi Sato1h 59m2014
Set in the year 2020, following her supposed death, a young woman returns as the son of her noble family to precede the family's prestigious company, with a demon at her side to avenge her parent's murder.
Our read: Black Butler (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · fantasy · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured horror / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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