2019 · drama · horror · sci-fi
Starfish
Directed by A.T. White1h 40m2019
Humanity is about to come to an end due to a mysterious signal; trapped at the home of a dead friend, Aubrey tries to turn things around after finding a mysterious cassette tape.
Our read: Starfish (2019) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal drama · horror · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Watching Starfish tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Starfish feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want an intimate grief story wrapped in cosmic end-of-world horror.”
Skip it tonight — You want clear plot or conventional monster movie thrills.
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