Extraterrestrial (2014) poster
2014 · horror · sci-fi · space

Extraterrestrial

Directed by Colin Minihan1h 41m2014
ElsewhereIMDb5.018kRT28%Metacritic38
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
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Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.

Our read · Extraterrestrial (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · sci-fi · space 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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You want cabin-weekend alien horror with a bleak conspiracy finish.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 22attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upjump scaresgraphic violencegoredrug usebody horrorsuicide theme

Skip it tonightYou want fun sci-fi or cannot handle nihilistic horror endings.

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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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