The Devil
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. As he follows his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub is affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption; he goes insane and becomes a mass murderer.
Our read · The Devil (1972) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal horror · drama · surreal entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of The Devil
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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