Movie

The Minus Man

1999 · 111 min

A quietly unsettling character study that crawls under your skin with its eerie calm and detached, dreamlike atmosphere.

Tagline: Keep your eyes open for anything too ordinary.
Overview: When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is merely a reflection of what those he encounters want him to be. Soon, as locals start to disappear, it becomes clear that an eerie subtraction is at work in the sleepy hamlet.
How it feels: Eerie, dark, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, identity, deception, violence
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
identity
deception
violence
madness
Places: small town
suburbs
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild