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The Empty Man is a 2020 American-South African film directed by David Prior. Produced by Boom! Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Disney+, the movie is presented in English. It stars James Badge Dale and features a score by composer Christopher Young. The narrative is set in 2018 within the Bumthang District of Missouri.
The film is categorized as a drama, crime, horror, and thriller. Its main subjects include doomsday, cults, mourning, and liminality, with narrative motifs involving bridges, tulpas, and Padmāsana. The plot centers on a detective investigation involving experiments and caves. The production had a budget of 16,000,000 and generated revenue of 4,796,993.
Released via video on demand, the film has a runtime of 137 minutes. It holds a review score of 5.8 out of 10 and 76 percent, with an IMDb rating of 6.2 and a TMDb vote average of 6.178. The tagline states, "The first night you hear him. The second night you see him. The third night he finds you."
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Film · TMDB
6.2On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.
Cast
- James Badge Dale as James Lasombra
- Marin Ireland as Nora Quail
- Sasha Frolova as Amanda Quail
- Samantha Logan as Davara Walsh
- Evan Jonigkeit as Greg
- Virginia Kull as Ruthie
Themes
- experiment
- detective
- cave
- missouri
- investigation
- bridge
- cult
- based on comic
- ex-cop
- hospital
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The Empty Man | 20th Century Studios
This supernatural horror film, drawn from the Boom! Studios graphic novel, centers on shocking events...
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- South Africa
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- meaning
- Director
- David Prior
- Screenwriter
- David Prior
- Cast member
- James Badge Dale
- Composer
- Christopher Young
- Production company
- Boom! Studios
- Narrative location
- Missouri
- Duration
- 137
- FilmAffinity ID
- 666158
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-empty-man
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