2020 · thriller · action · crime
The Silencing
Directed by Robin Pront1h 33m2020
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Our read: The Silencing (2020) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · action · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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