My Best Friend's Exorcism
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Neutral, kinetic, measured horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The year is 1988. Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. After an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different, which leads Abby to suspect her best friend may be possessed by a demon. With help from some unlikely allies, Abby embarks on a quest to save Gretchen. But is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
Our read · My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive horror · comedy · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of My Best Friend's Exorcism
What watching it is actually like.
“You want eighties teen friendship, gross-out possession laughs, and a scrappy rescue mission.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if vomit-heavy body horror or teen gross-out comedy will kill the mood.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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