Film

The Decline

Name: The Decline
Genre: Thriller, Action
Released: 2020
Cast: Réal Bossé, Marc-André Grondin, Guillaume Laurin, Marie-Evelyne Lessard, Marc Beaupré

Thriller

A Quebec thriller about a group attending survivalist training in an isolated compound, preparing for the apocalypse they've engineered in their heads. When actual disaster strikes, it's nothing they anticipated. Tense, claustrophobic, and darkly funny about prepper paranoia—perfect if you want your doomsday scenarios to actually arrive.

TMDb rating

3.1

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