The Remains
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
Sombre, kinetic, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →After a family moves into an old Victorian home, they discover a chest in the attic containing antiques tainted by a malevolent spirit. As the antiques slowly possess each family member, the spirit grows stronger, hellbent on kidnapping the children.
Our read · The Remains (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Remains
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