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The pacing is quite literally glacial, twisting, and plodding, much like taking a stroll through the rotten corridors of the great building. It's a comedy, but like all comedies it's juxtapose with striking terror, and other very heavy themes. All of which the cast attempts to gloss over with a veneer of 'civilization' in a lan ...more
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