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Films like Open Graves.

Open Graves (2009) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

Altitude (2010) poster
1. Altitude2010

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

Shadow Puppets (2007) poster
2. Shadow Puppets2007

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

Severed (2005) poster
3. Severed2005

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

13Hrs (2010) poster
4. 13Hrs2010

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

Dead Mine (2012) poster
5. Dead Mine2012

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

The Thompsons (2012) poster
6. The Thompsons2012

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

Forget Me Not (2009) poster
7. Forget Me Not2009

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

Andrea (2005) poster
8. Andrea2005

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

The V Word (2006) poster
9. The V Word2006

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

Tamara (2005) poster
10. Tamara2005

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
11. 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.

House of the Witch (2017) poster
12. House of the Witch2017

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

These are Open Graves’s neighbours — where are yours?

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