2006 · horror · tv-movie
The Screwfly Solution
Directed by Joe Dante59m2006
A strange virus renders the entire human male population into homicidal maniacs who end up wiping out all females, leaving a woman and her daughter to fend for themselves.
Our read: The Screwfly Solution (2006) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · tv-movie entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / tv-movie, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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