Films like Deliver Us from Evil.

Deliver Us from Evil (2014) reads as Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, inventive 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.

Infini (2015) poster
1. Infini2015

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

Sputnik (2020) poster
2. Sputnik2020

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

Cold Skin (2017) poster
3. Cold Skin2017

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

Ajin: Demi-Human (2017) poster
4. Ajin: Demi-Human2017

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

Apostle (2018) poster
5. Apostle2018

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

Rabid (2019) poster
6. Rabid2019

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

The Maze Runner (2014) (2014) poster
7. The Maze Runner2014

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

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) poster
8. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials2015

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

Alien Raiders (2008) poster
9. Alien Raiders2008

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

Metamorphosis (2019) poster
10. Metamorphosis2019

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

Some Kind of Hate (2015) poster
11. Some Kind of Hate2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Mondocane (2021) poster
12. Mondocane2021

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

These are Deliver Us from Evil’s neighbours — where are yours?

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