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2024 · action · horror · thriller · sci-fi

Werewolves

Directed by Steven C. Miller1h 33m2024
ElsewhereIMDb4.410kRT49%Metacritic46
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme action / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A year after a supermoon’s light activated a dormant gene, transforming humans into bloodthirsty werewolves and causing nearly a billion deaths, the nightmare resurfaces as the supermoon rises again. Two scientists attempt to stop the mutation but fail and must now struggle to reach one of their family homes.

Our read · Werewolves (2024) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes 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 lean werewolf siege action without pretending to be art horror.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightSkip if cheap creature carnage and thin plotting bore you quickly.

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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