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2019 · comedy · horror

Porno

Directed by Keola Racela1h 38m2019
ElsewhereIMDb5.13kRT76%Metacritic49
  • brisk
  • intense
  • inventive
  • cold
Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.

Our read · Porno (2019) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · horror entry — measured 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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You want a silly gory succubus comedy that turns a movie theater into a bloodbath.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 12attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygoregraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if sex demon horror or gross out kills the fun for you.

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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