2011 · horror · action · thriller
The Darkest Hour
Directed by Chris Gorak1h 29m2011
In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.
Our read: The Darkest Hour (2011) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal horror · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / action, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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