The Titan (2018) poster
2018 · sci-fi · thriller · music · monster

The Titan

1h 37m2018
ElsewhereIMDb4.835kRT23%Metacritic33
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

Our read · The Titan (2018) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · thriller · music entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured 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 gene-splice sci-fi where a soldier slowly stops being human.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 25attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upbody horrorgraphic violencechild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if body transformation horror and failed Netflix sci-fi will ruin your night.

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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