Films like Death Note: The Last Name.

Death Note: The Last Name (2006) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured fantasy / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, 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.

The Stone Council (2006) poster
1. The Stone Council2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors (2009) poster
2. Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Kovak Box (2006) poster
3. The Kovak Box2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Death Note (2006) poster
4. Death Note2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Harmony (2015) poster
5. Harmony2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Death Note: L Change the WorLd (2008) poster
6. Death Note: L Change the WorLd2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow (2010) poster
7. The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Godless Youth (2017) poster
8. Godless Youth2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Conspiracy (2012) poster
9. The Conspiracy2012

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) poster
10. Battlestar Galactica: Razor2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Storm (2005) poster
11. Storm2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

KM 31: Kilometer 31 (2006) poster
12. KM 31: Kilometer 312006

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Death Note: The Last Name’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →