Do Not Enter (2024) poster
2024 · horror · supernatural · music · sports

Do Not Enter

Directed by Hugo Cardozo1h 25m2024
ElsewhereIMDb5.3674
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Two working class youtubers ‘in the making’ enter an abandoned mansion to get their basketball back, and get lost inside while pranking each other. They record their ‘quick adventure’ with their phones for their audience, and tweak it with a fake phantom appearance to attract more followers to their YouTube channel. When uploaded the video goes viral, so they start a challenge: if the video reaches a certain number of views, they will enter the house again, at night, alone, totally unprotected. As fans react positively, they will do as promised, not only to discover and unveil the true nature of the place and their inhabitants, but to realize they might not be among the living anymore. Which opens a question - how far would you go to be famous?

Our read · Do Not Enter (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural · music entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured 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 tense found-footage horror with youtubers trapped by past torture.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 3/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upjump scaresgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if jump scares or supernatural torture will ruin your sleep tonight.

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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