2012 · horror · thriller · vampire
The Thompsons
Directed by Phil Flores, Mitchell Altieri1h 24m2012
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
Our read: The Thompsons (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · thriller · vampire entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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