The Exterminating Angel

The Exterminating Angel(1962)

"The degeneration of high society!"

7.9/10
699 votes
93 minMay 16, 1962

Overview

A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.

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