Shadow in the Cloud (2021) poster
2021 · horror · action · war

Shadow in the Cloud

Directed by Roseanne Liang1h 23m2021
ElsewhereIMDb5.034kRT77%Metacritic66
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

Our read · Shadow in the Cloud (2021) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · action · war entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes 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 pulpy WWII gremlin mayhem with feminist adrenaline and zero pretense.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild periljump scaresgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if absurd creature chaos or infant-in-peril tension ruins your fun.

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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