2010 · crime · thriller · horror
Cherry Tree Lane
Directed by Paul Andrew Williams1h 17m2010
Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some local boys, who are quite prepared to camp out and wait for him to get home ... the resulting culture-clash chamber drama is raw, revealing and nerve-splittingly tense.
Our read: Cherry Tree Lane (2010) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · thriller · horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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