Alien Autopsy (2006) poster
2006 · comedy · sci-fi · spy

Alien Autopsy

Directed by Jonny Campbell1h 35m2006
ElsewhereIMDb5.98kRT78%
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.

Our read · Alien Autopsy (2006) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · sci-fi · spy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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 chipper British comedy about faking the Roswell autopsy for quick cash.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 8attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if Ant and Dec nostalgia and UFO hoax capers hold zero appeal.

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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