The Butterfly Room
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
Heavy, steady, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbing relationship with a mysterious but seemingly innocent youngster.
Our read · The Butterfly Room (2012) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Butterfly Room
What watching it is actually like.
“You want creepy psychological horror about an elderly woman and a girl in danger.”
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The reading.
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