2011 · action · fantasy · horror
Priest
Directed by Scott Stewart1h 27m2011
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
Our read: Priest (2011) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal action · fantasy · horror entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- cold
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