Killing Ground (2017) poster
2017 · mystery · thriller · horror · slasher

Killing Ground

Directed by Damien Power1h 28m2017
ElsewhereIMDb5.810kRT73%Metacritic59
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
  • intimate
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Heavy, steady, extreme mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A couple's camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime.

Our read · Killing Ground (2017) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive mystery · thriller · horror 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 brutal, realistic Australian outback horror that earns its dread slowly.

ends bittersweetit will wreck youbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 25attention 5/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsexual violencegraphic violencechild peril

Skip it tonightYou cannot stomach sexual violence, child peril, or camping-trip terror 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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