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Films like The Wasteland.

The Wasteland (2021) reads as Heavy, measured, measured drama / horror, inventive 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.

Bloody Milk (2017) poster
1. Bloody Milk2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Nest (2019) poster
2. The Nest2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Return (2015) poster
3. Return2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Mad Women's Ball (2021) poster
4. The Mad Women's Ball2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lavender (2016) poster
5. Lavender2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Wind (2018) poster
6. The Wind2018

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

River's Edge (2018) poster
7. River's Edge2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Voice from the Stone (2017) poster
8. Voice from the Stone2017

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

Strangerland (2015) poster
9. Strangerland2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pyewacket (2017) poster
10. Pyewacket2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Lodgers (2017) poster
11. The Lodgers2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Clean (2022) poster
12. Clean2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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