Hallow Road (2025) poster
2025 · mystery · thriller · horror

Hallow Road

Directed by Babak Anvari1h 20m2025
ElsewhereIMDb6.010kRT88%Metacritic69
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

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

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Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.

Our read · Hallow Road (2025) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive mystery · thriller · horror 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 a real-time phone thriller where parental panic turns genuinely uncanny.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug usegraphic violencebody horror

Skip it tonightSkip if accident trauma, teen drug use, and creeping dread will keep you awake.

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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