Hungerford (2014) poster
2014 · action · horror · sci-fi · coming-of-age

Hungerford

Directed by Drew Casson1h 19m2014
ElsewhereIMDb3.82k
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, measured action / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The lives of a group of teenagers are turned upside down when their town is taken over by sinister forces.

Our read · Hungerford (2014) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · horror · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-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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What watching it is actually like.

You want scrappy British found-footage sci-fi horror with teens facing a town taken by sinister forces.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorejump scares

Skip it tonightYou hate found-footage or low-budget creature/zombie invasion mashups.

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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