Alma & the Wolf (2025) poster
2025 · horror · mystery · thriller

Alma & the Wolf

Directed by Michael Patrick Jann1h 29m2025
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

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

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After a violent animal attack, paranoia spreads through Spiral Creek. But when Deputy Ren Accord gets too close, his son vanishes, and reality begins to fracture.

Our read · Alma & the Wolf (2025) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery · thriller 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 folk horror paranoia with wolf attacks and fractured family reality.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 12attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegoreanimal harmchild peril

Skip it tonightYou cannot stomach animal harm or gory small-town psychological 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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