Tormented
- sombre
- kinetic
- intimate
Sombre, breathless, measured horror / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, is driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.
Our read · Tormented (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded horror · comedy · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Tormented
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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