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Starve

2014 · 98 min

A claustrophobic, grim survival thriller that traps you in the dark with its characters and rarely lets up.

Tagline
Eat. Prey. Kill.
Overview
While researching an urban legend on feral children, three friends find themselves trapped in an abandoned high school, where they are confronted with an evil more sinister than the legend itself.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • isolation
  • violence
  • mystery
  • death
Places
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror7
Humour1
Realism5
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
thriller, horror
Directed by
Griff Furst
Written by
Xander Wolf
Starring
Bobby Campo, Mariah Bonner, Cooper Huckabee, Thomas Francis Murphy, Bobby C. King, Dave Davis, Casey Dillard, Jessica Lemon Wilkinson
Runtime
98 min
Languages
English

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