The Colony (2013) poster
2013 · action · sci-fi · thriller

The Colony

Directed by Jeff Renfroe1h 35m2013
ElsewhereIMDb5.348kRT18%Metacritic28
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
  • twisty
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

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

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Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.

Our read · The Colony (2013) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-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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You want grim ice-age survival with a cannibal colony twist.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakensteady all the waygrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencebody horrorgore

Skip it tonightCannibal horror and bleak cold will kill your cozy mood.

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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