7 Mummies (2006) poster
2006 · horror · action · survival · zombie

7 Mummies

Directed by Nick Quested1h 19m2006
ElsewhereIMDb2.43k
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, measured horror / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Six escaped convicts and their female hostage make a desperate run for the Mexican border, where they stumble across a lost treasure of untold wealth, and find certain death instead on the Arizona desert.

Our read · 7 Mummies (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive horror · action · survival entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want cheap thrills with convicts, zombies and desert treasure hunt gone wrong.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
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Skip it tonightYou expect high production values or original zombie stories.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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