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2017 · horror · thriller · rape-revenge

Revenge

Directed by Coralie Fargeat1h 48m2017
ElsewhereIMDb6.457kRT92%Metacritic81TMDB6.52k
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

Our read · Revenge (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded horror · thriller · rape-revenge entry — extreme 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 neon-soaked desert revenge thriller with ferocious female rage.

ends triumphantit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 25attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsexual violencenuditygraphic violencegoredrug use

Skip it tonightSexual assault and extreme gore are dealbreakers for your movie night.

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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