2013 · horror · thriller · mystery
The Den
Directed by Zachary Donohue1h 17m2013
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
Our read: The Den (2013) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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