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2019 · horror · drama · thriller

Bliss

Directed by Joe Begos1h 20m2019
ElsewhereIMDb5.96kRT86%Metacritic53
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In need of creative inspiration, a professionally stagnant and hard-partying Los Angeles artist recklessly indulges in a series of drug binges. As the narcotics fly out of control, so does her newfound and inexplicable, yet unquenchable, craving for blood.

Our read · Bliss (2019) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate 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 wild, gory, drug-fueled vampire trip through LAs underbelly.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youa rollercoastergrips from the openattention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygraphic violencegoredrug use

Skip it tonightYou hate extreme gore, explicit sex, and hallucinatory horror.

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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