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Hide and Seek

2016 · 105 min

A slow-creeping unease builds as a tidy life frays into menace, keeping you watchful and unsettled throughout.

Directed by
Liu Jie
Genres
Thriller, Mystery
Starring
Wallace Huo, Qin Hailu, Wan Qian
Overview
A man lives in a lovely apartment with his wife and 2 children. He is obsessed with cleanliness, has strange dreams and struggles with a mystery in his past. He goes to a bad part of town hunting for a long lost brother, leaving his wife and children in their car. As he tries to get cooperation from neighbors, the wife finds her children are missing. A stranger wearing a dark motorcycle helmet appears, frightening her. As the story unfolds this stranger follows them becoming more and more threatening.

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Directed by
Liu Jie
Genres
Thriller, Mystery
Starring
Wallace Huo, Qin Hailu, Wan Qian
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • obsession
  • family
  • isolation
  • memory
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3.5
Horror4.5
Humour1.5
Realism6.5
Romance2
Tension7.5
Darkness6.5
Complexity6.5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
thriller, mystery
Directed by
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Starring
Wallace Huo, Qin Hailu, Wan Qian, Jessie Li, Dong Zijian, Li Yiqing
Cinematography
Ran Li
Runtime
105 min
Country
China
Languages
German, Mandarin

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