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Films like Death Trance.

Death Trance (2005) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Ultraviolet (2006) poster
1. Ultraviolet2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Metallica: Through the Never (2013) poster
2. Metallica: Through the Never2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Gene Generation (2007) poster
3. The Gene Generation2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

As the Gods Will (2014) poster
4. As the Gods Will2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Terra Formars (2016) poster
5. Terra Formars2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) poster
6. Starship Troopers: Invasion2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

City Under Siege (2010) poster
7. City Under Siege2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dead in Tombstone (2013) poster
8. Dead in Tombstone2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a clean studio craft.

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) poster
9. The Man with the Iron Fists2012

Keeps the relentless forward drive and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007) poster
10. BloodRayne II: Deliverance2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Saint (2010) poster
11. Saint2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

The Storm Warriors (2009) poster
12. The Storm Warriors2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

These are Death Trance’s neighbours — where are yours?

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