Films like The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon.

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (2008) reads as Warm, steady, measured comedy / horror, surreal 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.

The Big Night (2012) poster
1. The Big Night2012

Keeps the chilly detachment and the airy, open telling; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) poster
2. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie2012

Keeps the chilly detachment and the airy, open telling; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dear Mother (2020) poster
3. Dear Mother2020

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the chilly detachment; trades toward a pitch-dark outlook.

The Happytime Murders (2018) poster
4. The Happytime Murders2018

Keeps the chilly detachment and the airy, open telling; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Big Man Japan (2007) poster
5. Big Man Japan2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the chilly detachment; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Greener Grass (2019) poster
6. Greener Grass2019

Keeps the chilly detachment and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Wetlands (2013) poster
7. Wetlands2013

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Black Hole (2008) poster
8. The Black Hole2008

Keeps the chilly detachment and the airy, open telling; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Clink of Ice (2010) poster
9. The Clink of Ice2010

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Sex and Death 101 (2007) poster
10. Sex and Death 1012007

Keeps the chilly detachment and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Italiano medio (2015) poster
11. Italiano medio2015

Keeps the chilly detachment and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Louise-Michel (2008) poster
12. Louise-Michel2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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