Still/Born (2018) poster
2018 · horror · supernatural

Still/Born

Directed by Brandon Christensen1h 27m2018
ElsewhereIMDb5.45kRT68%Metacritic63
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child – a supernatural entity that has chosen her child and will stop at nothing to take it from her.

Our read · Still/Born (2018) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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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