House of Darkness
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
Sombre, measured, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.
Our read · House of Darkness (2022) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive horror · thriller · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of House of Darkness
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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