Alien vs. Ninja (2010) poster
2010 · horror · action · thriller · sci-fi

Alien vs. Ninja

Directed by Seiji Chiba1h 21m2010
ElsewhereIMDb4.42k
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • cold
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme horror / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A comet crashes into a Japanese forest and a group of mighty ninjas must fight a group of killer Aliens before they reach their village and kill everyone.

Our read · Alien vs. Ninja (2010) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal horror · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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 silly, gory Japanese B-movie action with ninjas battling aliens in the woods.

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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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