1974 · anthology · amicus · cushing
From Beyond the Grave
Directed by Kevin Connor1h 37m1974
Four customers purchase, or take, items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is “Offers You Cannot Resist.” A nasty fate awaits all of them; particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.
Our read: From Beyond the Grave (1974) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive anthology · amicus · cushing entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured anthology / amicus, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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