1976 · horror · thriller · drama
The Tenant (1976)
Directed by Roman Polanski2h 6m1976
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Our read: The Tenant (1976) (1976) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal horror · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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