2022 · thriller · crime · drama
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Directed by Michael Mailer1h 30m2022
A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four decades, works earnestly to try and unravel the town’s mystery and winds up getting more than he bargained for.
Our read: The Minute You Wake Up Dead (2022) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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