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2014 · horror · supernatural

Haunt

Directed by Mac Carter1h 26m2014
ElsewhereIMDb5.19kRT39%Metacritic33
  • sombre
  • intense
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

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

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An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that his family has unknowingly just purchased.

Our read · Haunt (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive horror · supernatural 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 a modest haunted-house chiller with teen romance and séance dread.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 15attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upjump scaressuicide theme

Skip it tonightSkip if familiar ghost beats and jump-scare formula feel too tame or tired.

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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