Films like 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2013) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011) poster
1. National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus2011

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Not Very Normal Activities (2013) poster
2. Not Very Normal Activities2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films (2011) poster
3. Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films2011

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Date Movie (2006) poster
4. Date Movie2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015) poster
5. Hot Tub Time Machine 22015

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the clean studio craft; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Hot Bot (2016) poster
6. Hot Bot2016

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Cyprien (2009) poster
7. Cyprien2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the clean studio craft; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Bad Johnson (2014) poster
8. Bad Johnson2014

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the clean studio craft; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Hungover Games (2014) poster
9. The Hungover Games2014

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

The Starving Games (2013) poster
10. The Starving Games2013

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Breaking Wind (2012) poster
11. Breaking Wind2012

Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour; trades toward a warm emotional register.

Farce of the Penguins (2006) poster
12. Farce of the Penguins2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.

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