2006 · thriller · horror · drama
Half Light
Directed by Craig Rosenberg1h 50m2006
Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.
Our read: Half Light (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive thriller · horror · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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