Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
- heavy
- extreme
- cold
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Our read · Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · crime · slasher 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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The shape of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a chilling true-crime portrait of denial and charisma.”
Skip it tonight — Serial-killer themes will ruin your mood tonight.
The reading.
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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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