2019 · horror · thriller
Piercing
Directed by Nicolas Pesce1h 22m2019
After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s always dreamed of: the perfect murder. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon realizes he might be in over his head with a mysteriously unhinged call girl named Jackie.
Our read: Piercing (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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“You want sterile motel psychosexual dread that keeps reversing power.”
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