Too Many Cooks
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- funny
Neutral, breathless, measured horror / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →"Too Many Cooks" is a humorous parody of US sitcoms of the 1970s and the 1980s, meanwhile what seems like an interminable opening theme, a mysterious killer makes his way and kills (preparing a lunch with their limbs) various members of the Cook Family.
Our read · Too Many Cooks (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal horror · comedy · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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 Too Many Cooks
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an 11-minute surreal Adult Swim nightmare that hijacks a sitcom intro forever.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if an endlessly repeating theme song and machete family slaughter 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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