No big-screen horror movie this year will situate its characters in circumstances more terrifying than those endured by the guests of the Algier’s Motel annex at the hands of a cretinous, murderous Detroit police force on the night of July 25, 1967.

In writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow’s essential new film DETROIT, viewers are dropped into the maelstrom of the 12th Street riot, and the death spiral of a major American city.

DETROIT

Now playing.

Los Feliz Theatre

1822 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles.

Arclight Hollywood

6360 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.

Regal L.A. Live

1000 West Olympic Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles.

Landmark

10850 West Pico Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

See Kathryn Bigelow in PARIS LA 8.

From top: Anthony Mackie in Detroit (2017), image credit Annapurna; Kathryn Bigelow, on set, photograph courtesy the director.