2021 · drama · thriller · supernatural
Homunculus
Directed by Takashi Shimizu1h 59m2021
A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.
Our read: Homunculus (2021) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal drama · thriller · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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