2023 · horror · drama · supernatural
Nefarious
Directed by Chuck Konzelman, Cary Solomon1h 38m2023
On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
Our read: Nefarious (2023) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · drama · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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