2017 · comedy · horror · supernatural
The Black Room
Directed by Rolfe Kanefsky1h 31m2017
Paul and Jennifer Hemdale have just moved into their dream house. But their happy marriage is about to be put to the test as they slowly discover the secret behind the black room in the cellar. Something else is already living in their new home and it is growing stronger every day.
Our read: The Black Room (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · horror · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- cold
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