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Films like House of Bones.

House of Bones (2010) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured horror / tv-movie, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

Stay Alive (2006) poster
1. Stay Alive2006

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

Species: The Awakening (2007) poster
2. Species: The Awakening2007

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

Siren (2010) poster
3. Siren2010

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

Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009) poster
4. Messengers 2: The Scarecrow2009

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

The Ouija Experiment 2: Theatre of Death (2015) poster
5. The Ouija Experiment 2: Theatre of Death2015

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

Debug (2014) poster
6. Debug2014

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

Ogre (2009) poster
7. Ogre2009

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

Boo (2005) poster
8. Boo2005

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the clean studio craft; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

13Hrs (2010) poster
9. 13Hrs2010

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

Robert (2015) poster
10. Robert2015

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the clean studio craft; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Wicked (2013) poster
11. The Wicked2013

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

Headspace (2005) poster
12. Headspace2005

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

These are House of Bones’s neighbours — where are yours?

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