Fist of Jesus
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- cold
- funny
Neutral, breathless, extreme comedy / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When Jacob tells Jesus that Lazarus, his son, is dead, he goes to his house to raise him from the dead.
Our read · Fist of Jesus (2012) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal comedy · action · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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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The shape of Fist of Jesus
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a 15-minute splatter comedy where Jesus fights zombies with a swordfish.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if over-the-top gore or sacrilegious humor will offend or disgust you.
The reading.
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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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