2023 · horror · thriller · mystery
Family Dinner
Directed by Peter Hengl1h 37m2023
Overweight and insecure, Simi spends Easter weekend with her famous nutritionist aunt. The hope is that it’ll help her get on a healthier track, but as the aunt’s family’s icy dynamics and an increasingly malevolent atmosphere leave Simi feeling uneasy, weight isn’t the only thing she’s about to lose.
Our read: Family Dinner (2023) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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