2019 · horror · mystery
Daniel Isn't Real
Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer1h 41m2019
A troubled college freshman resurrects his imaginary friend to help him cope with a violent trauma.
Our read: Daniel Isn't Real (2019) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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“You want stylish mental horror about a charismatic id hijacking reality.”
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