The Good Neighbor (2016) poster
2016 · drama · thriller · supernatural · coming-of-age

The Good Neighbor

Directed by Kasra Farahani1h 38m2016
ElsewhereIMDb6.319kRT36%Metacritic32
  • sombre
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.

Our read · The Good Neighbor (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · thriller · supernatural entry — measured 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 surveillance prank thriller that punishes cruelty with real weight.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsuicide themegraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou cannot handle on-screen suicide or teen schemes turning morally rotten.

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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