Leatherface
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, moulding him into a monster named Leatherface.
Our read · Leatherface (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded horror · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Leatherface
What watching it is actually like.
“You want brutal Texas horror tracing how a monster is forged.”
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The reading.
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