Films like Some Guy Who Kills People.

Some Guy Who Kills People (2011) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. 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.

Rebels (2019) poster
1. Rebels2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Housebound (2014) poster
2. Housebound2014

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dom Hemingway (2013) poster
3. Dom Hemingway2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Like Crazy (2016) poster
4. Like Crazy2016

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Flower (2017) poster
5. Flower2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Simon (2004) poster
6. Simon2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Small Town Crime (2018) poster
7. Small Town Crime2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) poster
8. A Somewhat Gentle Man2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Bottom of the Sea (2003) poster
9. The Bottom of the Sea2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Matador (2005) poster
10. The Matador2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Defendor (2009) poster
11. Defendor2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wild Mouse (2017) poster
12. Wild Mouse2017

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Some Guy Who Kills People’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 →