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2015 · thriller · mystery · drama · horror

Amnesiac

Directed by Michael Polish1h 30m2015
ElsewhereIMDb4.34kRT29%Metacritic33
  • heavy
  • intense
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, measured thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a prisoner.

Our read · Amnesiac (2015) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · mystery · drama entry — measured 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 a low-budget psychological captivity thriller with a twisty house of lies.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 25attention 3/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if slow pacing or confined-space dread will bore or unsettle you.

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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