Aftershock (2012) poster
2012 · horror · thriller · disaster

Aftershock

Directed by Nicolás López1h 29m2012
ElsewhereIMDb4.813kRT42%Metacritic39
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Mayhem and death follow when an earthquake traps a group of tourists in a Chilean town.

Our read · Aftershock (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded horror · thriller · disaster entry — extreme 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 disaster horror that turns cruel fast with no safe exits.

ends devastatingit will wreck yougrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsexual violencegraphic violencegorenudityjump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if rape, gore, or earthquake dread will wreck your evening.

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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