The Vatican Tapes
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Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →In a highly secured vault deep within the walls of Vatican City, the Catholic Church holds thousands of old films and video footage documenting exorcisms/supposed exorcisms and other unexplained religious phenomena they feel the world is not ready to see. This is the first tape - Case 83-G - stolen from these archives and exposed to the public by an anonymous source.
Our read · The Vatican Tapes (2015) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive thriller · horror 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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What watching it is actually like.
“You want Vatican conspiracy exorcism horror that ends on a sour cosmic note.”
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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