Films like The Tooth Fairy.

The Tooth Fairy (2006) reads as Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / slasher, 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.

Asylum (2008) poster
1. Asylum2008

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

Paranormal Xperience (2011) poster
2. Paranormal Xperience2011

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

Venom (2005) poster
3. Venom2005

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

Exorcismus (2010) poster
4. Exorcismus2010

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

Red Sands (2009) poster
5. Red Sands2009

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

Boogeyman 3 (2008) poster
6. Boogeyman 32008

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

Death Tunnel (2005) poster
7. Death Tunnel2005

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

Dead Mary (2007) poster
8. Dead Mary2007

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

Intermedio (2005) poster
9. Intermedio2005

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

Tamara (2005) poster
10. Tamara2005

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

The Nun (2005) poster
11. The Nun2005

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

Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006) poster
12. Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes2006

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

These are The Tooth Fairy’s neighbours — where are yours?

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