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2020 film directed by David Prior

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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

6.2

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

Released: 2020-10-22137 minDir: David PriorHorror, MysteryBudget: $16.0MBox office: $4.8M

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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Ratings

IMDb

6.2/10

50,023 votes

Year
2020
Runtime
137 min
Genres
Drama, Horror, Mystery

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Official website

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
Production company
Boom! Studios
Narrative location
Missouri
Duration
137
FilmAffinity ID
666158
Distribution format
video on demand
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title
The Empty Man
distributed by
Disney+
publication date
2020-08-06
set in period
2018
narrative motif
Padmāsana
review score
76%
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