Films like Dylan Dog: Dead of Night.

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured action / comedy, 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.

The Legend of La Llorona (2011) poster
1. The Legend of La Llorona2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Game Therapy (2015) poster
2. Game Therapy2015

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

Eat Locals (2017) poster
3. Eat Locals2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Maximum Ride (2016) poster
4. Maximum Ride2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Beyond Loch Ness (2008) poster
5. Beyond Loch Ness2008

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

Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006) poster
6. Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep2006

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

Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation (2012) poster
7. Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Decoys 2: Alien Seduction (2007) poster
8. Decoys 2: Alien Seduction2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bitten (2008) poster
9. Bitten2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

How I Became a Superhero (2020) poster
10. How I Became a Superhero2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) poster
11. X-Men Origins: Wolverine2009

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

Swamp Shark (2011) poster
12. Swamp Shark2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the clean studio craft; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

These are Dylan Dog: Dead of Night’s neighbours — where are yours?

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