The Inhabitant
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
Our read · The Inhabitant (2022) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · horror · mystery 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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“You want a small-town horror mystery about a teen questioning her sanity and ancestry.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if ax murders and family horror will keep you up tonight.
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