2010 · thriller · horror
Territories
Directed by Olivier Abbou1h 35m2010
Five friends return home from a wedding in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity.
Our read: Territories (2010) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded thriller · horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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How Territories feels to watch.
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“You want a tense border torture thriller that turns into political commentary.”
Skip it tonight — You want escapism or cannot stomach extended torture and gore.
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