Maximum Shame

Maximum Shame

Time is running out and future is a black hole!

2010 · 80 min · ★ 4.8 · Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Music

The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him. Both will be trapped in a strange and cruel world where a ruthless Queen organizes reality as a mad game of chess, a post-apocalyptic dystopia of domination and subjugation where characters can’t eat, speak or move about freely and are periodically viciously attacked.

Directed by Carlos Atanes · Written by Carlos Atanes

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