Still/Born
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child – a supernatural entity that has chosen her child and will stop at nothing to take it from her.
Our read · Still/Born (2018) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-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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The shape of Still/Born
What watching it is actually like.
“You want postpartum horror about a mother protecting her surviving twin from something evil.”
Skip it tonight — You are a new parent or cannot stomach baby-in-danger horror.
The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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