NOIR · Film
Late 1800s. A drifter wanders into a hidden mining town of impossible wealth, governed by a code of conduct no one will explain to him. Every reward is doubled. Every punishment is doubled. He has no idea which rule he has just broken.
Slate indexNotes from the Studio
PURITAN uses the western as a theological trap: a town where justice is visible, immediate, and unbearable.
The film belongs to NOIR because its terror is procedural. Rules exist. Mercy may not.
Jonas Hale, Mara Venn, Colm Strick
Production design by Inez Crowley. Costumes by Sela Wardell.
NOIR adjacency
Hana Iwasaki · In Production
1980s rural Pennsylvania. A forensic linguist investigates a series of disappearances connected to a local oral tradition.
Marlowe Adair · Post-Production
Forty years after her father survived a river that took his friends, a graduate student returns to the Chattooga with her camera, planning to document the deaths. The river is still listening.
Vera Mokrani · Development
A year after the Air Force is decommissioned, autonomous strike platforms begin selecting their own targets. A family learns to live in absolute silence.