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Beast (2018)

★ 6.5 · 343 ratings on TMDB

Be careful what you unleash

Beast poster★ 6.5

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.

DirectorMichael Pearce
CastCharley Palmer Rothwell, Geraldine James, Hattie Gotobed, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Morgan Best
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery
The emergence reading

Beast keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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