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Films like Mr. Jones.

Mr. Jones (2013) reads as Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Delirium (2018) poster
1. Delirium2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Parasomnia (2008) poster
2. Parasomnia2008

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Compulsion (2013) poster
3. Compulsion2013

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Qwerty2007
4. Qwerty2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Cadaver (2020) poster
5. Cadaver2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Abattoir (2016) poster
6. Abattoir2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009) poster
7. The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Population 436 (2006) poster
8. Population 4362006

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tin & Tina (2023) poster
9. Tin & Tina2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Static (2012) poster
10. Static2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dorothy Mills (2008) poster
11. Dorothy Mills2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Walled In (2009) poster
12. Walled In2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

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