FilmsOpen GraveLike this

Films like Open Grave.

Open Grave (2013) reads as Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, 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.

Tell-Tale (2009) poster
1. Tell-Tale2009

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

The Super (2018) poster
2. The Super2018

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

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014) poster
3. The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death2014

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

Giallo (2009) poster
4. Giallo2009

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

Flight 7500 (2014) poster
5. Flight 75002014

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

The Kindred (2021) poster
6. The Kindred2021

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

Wer (2013) poster
7. Wer2013

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

Ares (2016) poster
8. Ares2016

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

Shiver (2008) poster
9. Shiver2008

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

Body Cam (2020) poster
10. Body Cam2020

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

Yulenka (2009) poster
11. Yulenka2009

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

Eloise (2016) poster
12. Eloise2016

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

These are Open Grave’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →