Rapture-Palooza (2013) poster
2013 · comedy · fantasy · horror · disaster

Rapture-Palooza

Directed by Paul Middleditch1h 25m2013
ElsewhereIMDb5.213kRT25%Metacritic44
  • kinetic
  • inventive
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, measured comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.

Our read · Rapture-Palooza (2013) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · fantasy · horror entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes 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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You want bloody rapture satire with Craig Robinson as a petty Antichrist.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditygraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if crude sex humor and gory apocalypse deaths kill the mood.

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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