2018 · horror · war · sci-fi
Overlord
Directed by Julius Avery1h 50m2018
On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.
Our read: Overlord (2018) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · war · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / war, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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