Out of Darkness (2024) poster
2024 · adventure · horror · thriller · music

Out of Darkness

Directed by Andrew Cumming1h 27m2024
ElsewhereIMDb5.48kRT85%Metacritic68
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
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Heavy, breathless, extreme adventure / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. But when they suspect a malevolent, mystical, being is hunting them down, the clan are forced to confront a danger they never envisaged.

Our read · Out of Darkness (2024) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive adventure · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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