2022 · mystery · thriller · horror
Maneater
Directed by Justin Lee1h 26m2022
A group of friends on vacation in a seeming island paradise are stalked by an unrelenting great white after an accident leaves them stranded and left for dead.
Our read: Maneater (2022) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded mystery · thriller · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme mystery / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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