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Death Note (2017)

Death Note poster
Directed by
Adam Wingard
Genre
horror film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
R
Rating
4.3 of 10 from 4,140 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A high school student finds a notebook that can kill anyone whose name is written in it. He starts killing criminals while a detective tries to stop him.

tensedarksuspensefulsupernaturalmoodyfast-pacedcerebralviolent

What happens

Death Note is a 2017 American supernatural crime thriller film directed by Adam Wingard from a screenplay by Charles and Vlas Parlapanides and Jeremy Slater, loosely based on the manga of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. It stars Nat Wolff, LaKeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham, Paul Nakauchi, Jason Liles, and Willem Dafoe. The plot follows an American high school student named Light Turner (portrayed by Wolff), who finds a mysterious supernatural notebook known as the Death Note and uses it to murder criminals around the globe under the alias of Kira, while an international detective known only as L (portrayed by Stanfield) seeks to find and arrest him. Death Note premiered at FrightFest on August 24, 2017, and was released by Netflix on August 25, 2017. It received negative reviews from critics and fans. As of September 2021, a sequel is in development, with Greg Russo attached to write the screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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