2009 · horror · comedy · supernatural
Tormented
Directed by Jon Wright1h 31m2009
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.
Sombre, breathless, measured horror / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
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- intimate
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