The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) poster
2019 · horror · thriller · supernatural

The Haunting of Sharon Tate

Directed by Daniel Farrands1h 30m2019
ElsewhereIMDb2.95kRT18%Metacritic8
  • heavy
  • intense
  • bleak
  • cold
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Heavy, steady, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.

Our read · The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · thriller · supernatural entry — measured 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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You want a horror film dramatizing Sharon Tate's premonitions of the Manson murders.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 12attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upanimal harmgraphic violencegorechild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if real murder visions, dead animals or pregnancy peril will disturb you.

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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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