Things Will Be Different (2024) poster
2024 · horror · sci-fi · supernatural · heist

Things Will Be Different

Directed by Michael Felker1h 42m2024
ElsewhereIMDb5.23kRT81%Metacritic62
  • sombre
  • intense
  • surreal
  • cold
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured horror / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In order to escape the police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.

Our read · Things Will Be Different (2024) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal horror · sci-fi · 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 tense indie horror where time travel warps sibling bonds.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 15attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou want simple scares or cannot handle psychological family horror.

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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