Escape from Tomorrow
- heavy
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, measured horror / fantasy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
Our read · Escape from Tomorrow (2013) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal horror · fantasy · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Escape from Tomorrow
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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