2015 · horror · crime · thriller
Savageland
Directed by Simon Herbert, David Whelan, Phil Guidry1h 21m2015
When a small town near the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out overnight, suspicion falls on the lone survivor. But a roll of photos the survivor took that night tells a different story.
Our read: Savageland (2015) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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