2021 · thriller · horror · comedy
The Beta Test
Directed by Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe1h 34m2021
An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.
Our read: The Beta Test (2021) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · horror · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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