2020 · horror · drama
The Stylist
Directed by Jill Gevargizian1h 45m2020
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.
Our read: The Stylist (2020) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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