Let's Be Evil (2016) poster
2016 · thriller · horror · sci-fi

Let's Be Evil

Directed by Martin Owen1h 23m2016
ElsewhereIMDb3.86kRT20%
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A woman enters an underground bunker where gifted children use augmented reality technology to wreak havoc.

Our read · Let's Be Evil (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · horror · sci-fi entry — measured 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 tech horror about creepy gifted kids using AR in an underground bunker.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if stories with imperiled children or virtual reality nightmares stress you.

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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