Jeruzalem (2016) poster
2016 · horror · supernatural

Jeruzalem

Directed by Yoav Paz, Doron Paz1h 27m2016
ElsewhereIMDb4.812kRT54%Metacritic45
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon the city.

Our read · Jeruzalem (2016) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, epic-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 Google Glass found-footage horror trading through Jerusalem before hell opens.

ends devastatingit will wreck youa slow buildgrips by minute 20attention 3/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upjump scaresgraphic violencesuicide theme

Skip it tonightSkip if shaky POV demon chaos and apocalyptic 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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