2019 · thriller · horror · mystery
Braid
Directed by Mitzi Peirone1h 25m2019
Two drug dealers on the lam seek refuge inside their mentally unstable friend’s mansion. But in order to stay, they have to participate in her elaborate, and increasingly dangerous, game of permanent make-believe.
Our read: Braid (2019) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal thriller · horror · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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How Braid feels to watch.
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Skip it tonight — Skip if graphic violence, drugs, or surreal psychological games disturb you.
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