Our House (2018) poster
2018 · horror · supernatural · political

Our House

Directed by Anthony Scott Burns1h 30m2018
ElsewhereIMDb5.310kRT62%Metacritic45
  • heavy
  • measured
  • intense
Movie DNA

Heavy, measured, measured horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.

Our read · Our House (2018) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · supernatural · political entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic 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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You want grief-driven supernatural horror with science-gone-wrong family stakes.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 22attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upjump scareschild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if haunted-kid peril, jump scares, or a rickety final act will leave you annoyed.

DNA · twelve axes

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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.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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