Films like Not Very Normal Activities.

Not Very Normal Activities (2013) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films (2011) poster
1. Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films2011

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011) poster
2. National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus2011

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Date Movie (2006) poster
3. Date Movie2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Farce of the Penguins (2006) poster
4. Farce of the Penguins2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Starving Games (2013) poster
5. The Starving Games2013

Keeps the gentle temperature and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Cyprien (2009) poster
6. Cyprien2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Spanish Movie (2009) poster
7. Spanish Movie2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2013) poster
8. 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hot Bot (2016) poster
9. Hot Bot2016

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010) poster
10. The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It2010

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a heightened unreality.

If I Were a Boy (2017) poster
11. If I Were a Boy2017

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Strange Wilderness (2008) poster
12. Strange Wilderness2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a heightened unreality.

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