Under Paris (2024) poster
2024 · action · horror

Under Paris

Directed by Xavier Gens1h 42m2024
ElsewhereIMDb5.238kRT63%Metacritic57
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme action / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In order to save Paris from an international bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine.

Our read · Under Paris (2024) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · 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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You want absurd French shark carnage once the Seine finally stops talking politics.

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips by minute 38attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorechild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if reading subtitles during limb-ripping B-movie chaos sounds exhausting.

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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