The May December director's 2019 film is uncharacteristically realist - but it's also an existential horror about the toxicity of the modern world If you were to wander accidentally into the opening scenes of Dark Waters, you might dismiss it as a generic horror. A gaggle of teenagers jump the fence to swim in an inky lake, spied by some underwater predator. A television monitor displays grainy VHS footage of a tumour spilling out of a cow's skull. A beleaguered Mark Ruffalo sits alone in a dark...
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The May December director's 2019 film is uncharacteristically realist - but it's also an existential horror about the toxicity of the modern world If you were to wander accidentally into the opening scenes of Dark Waters, you might dismiss it as a generic horror. A gaggle of teenagers jump the fence to swim in an inky lake, spied by some underwater predator. A television monitor displays grainy VHS footage of a tumour spilling out of a cow's skull. A beleaguered Mark Ruffalo sits alone in a dark...
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