2008 · action · horror · thriller
Storm Cell
Directed by Steven R. Monroe1h 32m2008
A brother and sister are torn apart when their parents die tragically in a tornado. While he moves to Seattle to be away from the memory, she devotes her life to studying storms and weather patterns. When she discovers the threat of a powerful series of tornadoes are heading for Seattle, she must convince her brother and the entire city that she is not crazy; and they are in grave danger
Our read: Storm Cell (2008) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · horror · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / horror, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
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