The Hideout
- heavy
- cold
Heavy, steady, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
Our read · The Hideout (2007) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · mystery · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Hideout
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