2009 · horror · thriller · slasher
Macabre
Directed by Timo Tjahjanto, Kimo Stamboel1h 35m2009
Six friends are captured and tortured by a murderous family after giving a ride home to a desperate stranger.
Our read: Macabre (2009) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · thriller · slasher entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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