Escape the Field
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, breathless, measured thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Six strangers suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, the group realizes it’s been plunged into a cat-and-mouse game with an unseen evil, and survival depends upon solving a diabolical and deadly puzzle.
Our read · Escape the Field (2022) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive thriller · horror · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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