Not Very Normal Activities
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- cold
- intimate
- funny
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →An isolated house, a young couple, a perverted videographer, a mute. All of which leads to normal activities... but not quite! A parody of Paranormal Activity.
Our read · Not Very Normal Activities (2013) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · horror · parody entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold 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 Not Very Normal Activities
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a silly low-budget parody of Paranormal Activity scares.”
Skip it tonight — You want genuinely scary horror or high production values.
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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