2021 · horror · romance · sci-fi
Tentacles
Directed by Clara Aranovich1h 24m2021
A young Los Angeles couple Tara and Sam fall head over heels into a new romance, entwining their lives—until their intimacy transforms into something terrifying.
Our read: Tentacles (2021) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · romance · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured horror / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- inventive
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