2014 · sci-fi · horror · action
Parasyte: Part 1
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki1h 49m2014
Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat murders'. High school student Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.
Our read: Parasyte: Part 1 (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · horror · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
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