Black Mountain Side (2016) poster
2016 · thriller · horror · mystery · survival

Black Mountain Side

Directed by Nick Szostakiwskyj1h 39m2016
ElsewhereIMDb5.17kRT80%
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

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

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A group of archaeologists working in Northern Canada uncover a strange structure dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team soon finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and they begin to feel the effects of solitude.

Our read · Black Mountain Side (2016) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · horror · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-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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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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