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Riding the Bullet
Drama, Horror, Thriller
In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has had a stroke and decides to hitchhike to visit her at the hospital.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy introspective supernatural road stories where psychological distress and grief blur the boundary between haunting and hallucination.
- Tone
- eerie, melancholic, surreal
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- mortality, grief, depression, family bonds, guilt
- Setting
- late 1960s, rural highways and institutional interiors
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