2022 · thriller · horror · crime
Frank and Penelope
Directed by Sean Patrick Flanery1h 52m2022
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
Our read: Frank and Penelope (2022) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · horror · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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