2024 · action · sci-fi · thriller
Elevation
Directed by George Nolfi1h 31m2024
Post-apocalyptic survivors find refuge in the Rocky Mountains to hide from giant, insect-like creatures that can't live above 8,000 feet. However, when one of them needs life-saving supplies, they risk it all to venture into the danger zone.
Our read: Elevation (2024) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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