2018 · horror · thriller
What Keeps You Alive
Directed by Colin Minihan1h 39m2018
Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a married couple attempting to celebrate their first anniversary.
Our read: What Keeps You Alive (2018) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
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How What Keeps You Alive feels to watch.
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“You want a lesbian cabin thriller where intimacy turns lethal and survival gets brutal.”
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