Super Dark Times
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
Our read · Super Dark Times (2017) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · thriller · slasher 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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The shape of Super Dark Times
What watching it is actually like.
“You want nineties teen dread where one backyard mistake curdles into paranoia.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if teen violence, animal harm, and bleak aftermath will haunt you.
The reading.
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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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