2021 · horror · thriller · music
The Devil Below
Directed by Bradley Parker1h 29m2021
A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
Our read: The Devil Below (2021) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller · music entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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“You want Appalachian mine-creature horror with a fast creature-siege B-movie pulse.”
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