The Black Room
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- cold
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Paul and Jennifer Hemdale have just moved into their dream house. But their happy marriage is about to be put to the test as they slowly discover the secret behind the black room in the cellar. Something else is already living in their new home and it is growing stronger every day.
Our read · The Black Room (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · horror · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes 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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