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2021 · drama · horror · sci-fi · supernatural

Demonic

Directed by Neill Blomkamp1h 44m2021
ElsewhereIMDb4.37kRT14%Metacritic36
  • heavy
  • intense
  • cold
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Heavy, steady, measured drama / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.

Our read · Demonic (2021) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · horror · sci-fi 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 VR exorcism sci-fi with mother-daughter guilt and Blomkamp gloom.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upjump scaresbody horrorgraphic violencegore

Skip it tonightSkip if muddy demon horror and grim family trauma will leave you cold.

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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