2024 · horror · thriller · action
Wake Up
Directed by François Simard1h 20m2024
A group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore as it closes. But their plan goes terribly wrong when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security guard with a gruesome passion for primitive hunting. As the night fills with violence and terror, the teenagers find themselves in a desperate fight for their lives.
Our read: Wake Up (2024) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · thriller · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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