Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps (2010) poster
2010 · thriller · horror · mystery · supernatural

Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps

Directed by Michael Steiner1h 50m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.43k
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
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Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, a beautiful and mysterious woman shows up. Only the village policeman takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out who she is. There are hints that she came from the Höhenalp Alp, where herdsmen do unthinkable things to get the company of women. Many dark truths are revealed that should better have remained hidden. A tragedy of lust, insanity and murder is brought to a seemlingly pure and perfect world. It is the beginning of a nightmare of religious insanity, hypocrisy, abuse and belief in demons, who destroys a young family and brings a whole village to destruction.

Our read · Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps (2010) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · horror · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold 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 a dark Swiss alpine folk horror about hidden village sins and revenge.

ends devastatingit will wreck youa slow buildgrips by minute 25attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditysexual violencegraphic violencegoreanimal harmchild perilsuicide theme

Skip it tonightYou dislike bleak tragedies or animal cruelty and sexual violence.

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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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