Almost Human
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Mark Fisher disappeared from his home in a brilliant flash of blue light almost two years ago. His friend Seth Hampton was the last to see him alive. Now a string of grisly, violent murders leads Seth to believe that Mark is back, and something evil is living inside of him.
Our read · Almost Human (2014) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · sci-fi · slasher 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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The shape of Almost Human
What watching it is actually like.
“You want gritty indie sci-fi horror with alien body takeover and practical gore.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if severe violence, gore, or alien possession will turn your stomach.
The reading.
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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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