2020 · horror · mystery · sports
Death of Me
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman1h 35m2020
A couple on holiday on a remote South Pacific island awaken one morning with a hang over and no recollection of what transpired. When playing back a video of the previous night, they see they participated in a local ritual that somehow ends with him murdering her.
Our read: Death of Me (2020) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery · sports entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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