2020 · drama · thriller · slasher
Unknown Origins
Directed by David Galán Galindo1h 37m2020
In Madrid, Spain, a mysterious serial killer ruthlessly murders his victims by recreating the first appearance of several comic book superheroes. Cosme, a veteran police inspector who is about to retire, works on the case along with the tormented inspector David Valentín and his own son Jorge Elías, a nerdy young man who owns a comic book store.
Our read: Unknown Origins (2020) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive drama · thriller · slasher entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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- intense
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