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Films like The Influence.

The Influence (2019) reads as Heavy, measured, measured horror / supernatural, 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.

The Hollow Child (2018) poster
1. The Hollow Child2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stephanie (2017) poster
2. Stephanie2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Binding (2020) poster
3. The Binding2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Communion Girl (2023) poster
4. The Communion Girl2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Bride (2017) poster
5. The Bride2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mercy Black (2019) poster
6. Mercy Black2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Disappointments Room (2016) poster
7. The Disappointments Room2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Atticus Institute (2015) poster
8. The Atticus Institute2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) poster
9. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Banishing (2021) poster
10. The Banishing2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Z (2019) poster
11. Z2019

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

Return (2015) poster
12. Return2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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