2019 · horror · sci-fi · drama
Brightburn
Directed by David Yarovesky1h 31m2019
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Our read: Brightburn (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · sci-fi · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
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How Brightburn feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want evil-Superman horror where small-town parenting meets unstoppable menace.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot watch graphic violence involving kids and families.
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