2016 · mystery · drama · horror
Evolution
Directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović1h 22m2016
11-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a seaside housing estate. The only place that ever sees any activity is the hospital. It is there that all the boys from the village are forced to undergo strange medical trials that attempt to disrupt the phases of evolution.
Our read: Evolution (2016) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, surreal mystery · drama · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured mystery / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
Watching Evolution tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Evolution feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want hypnotic coastal body horror about boys and clinical wrongness.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if surreal child peril and clinical nudity will haunt you afterward.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Evolution, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →