The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
- warm
- surreal
- cold
- funny
Warm, steady, measured comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →From Richard Gale, mad maker of CRITICIZED, comes a film that will never have you looking at cutlery the same way again. Set-up as an epic-length trailer for an upcoming release, HORRIBLY SLOW... depicts a man's endless pursuit by what has got to be one of the most determined and patient murderers the screen has ever seen.
Our read · The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (2008) reads as a warm, steady, surreal comedy · horror · parody entry — measured 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 The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a ten-minute absurd deadpan comedy with one relentless visual joke.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if surreal slow-burn joke premises lose you after two minutes.
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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