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2021 · horror · thriller

Great White

Directed by Martin Wilson1h 31m2021
ElsewhereIMDb4.210kRT44%Metacritic45
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A sea plane is destroyed in a freak accident, five people find themselves drifting on a raft. At the mercy of the tide and with no hope of rescue, the helpless situation takes a horrifying turn when they are terrorized by a ravenous great white.

Our read · Great White (2021) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded horror · thriller entry — extreme 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 straight shark-survival B-movie on a drifting raft.

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Skip it tonightSkip if cheap CGI sharks and predictable kills bore you instantly.

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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