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2023 · horror · thriller

Clock

Directed by Alexis Jacknow1h 32m2023
ElsewhereIMDb5.07kRT79%Metacritic59
  • heavy
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

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

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On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.

Our read · Clock (2023) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · thriller entry — measured 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 reproductive anxiety turned into surreal, feminist body horror.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 18attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upbody horrorjump scares

Skip it tonightExperimental fertility horror with medical gaslighting sounds too stressful.

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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