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2019 · horror · survival

The Farm

Directed by Hans Stjernswärd1h 20m2019
ElsewhereIMDb3.75k
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / survival, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The young couple Nora and Alec are on their way back from a long road trip. In a desert town they want to take a break, but when they wake up the next morning, they are no longer in the motel where they had actually checked in. Overnight, the by a group of crazed killers wearing animal masks, have been abducted. What would happen if people were treated like cattle for slaughter? On the farm, this horrific idea comes true. As Nora and Alec soon find out, they are not the only ones locked in cages, fattened up and fed only to be slaughtered, disemboweled and eaten as a delicacy by their torturers. For the young couple begins a fight for bare survival.

Our read · The Farm (2019) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · survival 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 extreme horror that reverses the food chain with slaughter imagery.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 10attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorebody horroranimal harm

Skip it tonightYou want any comfort or have issues with graphic human and animal cruelty.

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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