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2007 · horror · mystery · thriller · supernatural

Beneath

Directed by Dagen Merrill1h 22m2007
ElsewhereIMDb5.34kRT71%
  • heavy
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Christy returns to her hometown years after a car accident that disfigured her older sister. Haunted by the accident in which she was the driver, she learns that her worst nightmares have either come true ... or are about to.

Our read · Beneath (2007) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · mystery · thriller 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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You want a small-town horror mystery about guilt and buried family secrets.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if slow psychological horror or disturbing images will unsettle you.

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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