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2014 · comedy · horror

Tusk

Directed by Kevin Smith1h 42m2014
ElsewhereIMDb5.471kRT45%Metacritic55
  • brisk
  • intense
Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.

Our read · Tusk (2014) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · horror entry — measured 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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What watching it is actually like.

You want outrageously transgressive body horror that will genuinely shock you.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 28attention 5/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upbody horrorgraphic violencecringe humiliation

Skip it tonightYou value your comfort zone or cannot handle extreme body horror tonight.

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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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