The Dinosaur Project (2012) poster
2012 · adventure · action · horror

The Dinosaur Project

Directed by Sid Bennett1h 23m2012
ElsewhereIMDb4.56kRT29%
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, measured adventure / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs.

Our read · The Dinosaur Project (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive adventure · action · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent 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 low-budget found footage explorers discovering dinosaurs in the Congo.

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 10attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou dislike shaky cam or cheap creature features.

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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