There's Something Wrong with the Children
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Margaret and Ben take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie and Thomas and their two young children. Eventually, Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.
Our read · There's Something Wrong with the Children (2023) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · mystery · 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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The shape of There's Something Wrong with the Children
What watching it is actually like.
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