The Night Doctor (2021), a Cannes Hidden Gem
The Night Doctor achieves telling an original story in which the pace accelerates progressively while supported by dark aesthetics.

a ragtag group of friends, scattered across the country, begin to receive packages from a ghost in Oklahoma. One by one, they piece together a series of sinister clues, growing closer to each other and to a truth none of them are prepared to learn.
The Night Doctor achieves telling an original story in which the pace accelerates progressively while supported by dark aesthetics.
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