The Open House
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, measured, measured horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A teenager and his mother find themselves besieged by threatening forces when they move into a new house.
Our read · The Open House (2018) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded horror · thriller · survival entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Open House
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The reading.
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