A Haunting in Venice (2023)
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
Sombre, steady, measured mystery / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Our read · A Haunting in Venice (2023) (2023) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive mystery · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate 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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The shape of A Haunting in Venice
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“You want an atmospheric, jumpy Poirot mystery with ghosts, Venice gloom, and post-war grief.”
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