2012 · horror · thriller · monster
The Barrens
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman1h 37m2012
A man takes his family on a camping trip and becomes convinced they are being stalked by the legendary monster of the New Jersey Pine Barrens: the Jersey Devil.
Our read: The Barrens (2012) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · thriller · monster entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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