Films like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) reads as Sombre, kinetic, extreme romance / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender. 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.
Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a chilly detachment.
Keeps the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a world-sized stakes.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a chilly detachment.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a chilly detachment.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a chilly detachment.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.
These are Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
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