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2019 · horror · thriller · supernatural · slasher

Haunt

Directed by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck1h 33m2019
ElsewhereIMDb6.343kRT71%Metacritic69
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an extreme haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realisation that some nightmares are real.

Our read · Haunt (2019) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded horror · thriller · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent 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 lean Halloween-night haunted house that turns traps into survival puzzles.

ends triumphantit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 18attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgoregraphic violencejump scares

Skip it tonightYou dislike slashers or need characters deeper than fresh-faced party kids.

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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