2021 · thriller · horror · crime
Safer at Home
Directed by Will Wernick1h 22m2021
Two years into the pandemic, a group of friends throw an online party with a night of games, drinking and drugs. After taking an ecstasy pill, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their home becomes more terrifying than the raging chaos outside.
Our read: Safer at Home (2021) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · horror · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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