Bloody Disgusting
While it does offer a new angle on a familiar horror setup, spinning into an entirely different subgenre in the process, The Empty Man stretches out an underbaked idea to an excruciating degree.
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The Empty Man
James Badge Dale (Iron Man 3), Joel Courtney (Super 8) and Stephen Root (Office Space) star in this supernatural horror based on the graphic novel of the same name. Writer-director David Prior's feature debut.
While searching for a missing girl, an ex-cop discovers a sinister group trying to summon a supernatural being. The process? Blowing into an empty bottle and thinking of "The Empty Man".
Less2020Rating: R16, Violence, horror & suicide137 minsUSA
CrimeHorror
- Director:
- David Prior (feature debut)
- Writer:
- David Prior
- Cast:
- James Badge DaleJoel CourtneyStephen RootMarin IrelandOwen TeagueEvan JonigkeitVirginia KullJessica Matten
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A movie that makes Fox’s polarising and similarly-confounding A Cure For Wellness now look like a masterpiece and “almost” make you yearn for the simpler “delights” of the much-derided Slender Man, The Empty Man really emphasises how bare the Covid cinematic cupboard must be while the studios wait for the pandemic to die down.
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The Empty Man is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon and Disney+ and Neon Rentals.