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Alien

1979 · Horror · Ridley Scott · 1h 57m

The crew of a commercial towing ship is woken early to investigate a signal from a nearby moon, and brings something back aboard. Long stretches of corridor and waiting.

  • Strongly heavy
  • Strongly fantastic

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Describe: Alien

Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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  • Bird Box

    88% alike

    2018 · Horror

    Something arrives that kills anyone who looks at it, so a woman takes two small children down a river blindfolded. It cuts between that trip and the crowded house where it all started.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

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    Describe: Bird Box

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
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  • The Wailing

    86% alike

    2016 · Horror

    A clumsy village policeman in rural Korea looks into a run of killings that began after a Japanese stranger moved into the woods. Two and a half hours that start out funny and do not stay that way.

    • Strongly heavy

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    Describe: The Wailing

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
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  • Annihilation

    86% alike

    2018 · Science fiction

    A biologist joins an all-woman expedition into a stretch of coastline sealed off behind a shimmering wall, where the plants and animals have gone strange. It moves slowly and gets stranger the further in they walk.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly fantastic

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    Describe: Annihilation

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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    IntimateEpic
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