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The Shining

1980 · Horror · Stanley Kubrick · 1h 59m

A writer takes a job as winter caretaker of an empty Colorado hotel and moves his wife and son in. Slow, enormous corridors, and something is wrong from early on.

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  • Hereditary

    95% alike

    2018 · Horror

    After her difficult mother dies, a miniature artist and her family begin coming apart, and something in the house does not feel finished. Long, quiet and building; the frights are mostly not the jumping kind.

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    Describe: Hereditary

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

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  • The Village

    95% alike

    2004 · Thriller

    A nineteenth-century settlement has an agreement with the creatures in the surrounding woods, and a young man wants to cross them for medicine. Slow and hushed.

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    Describe: The Village

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

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  • The Exorcist

    94% alike

    1973 · Horror

    A film star's twelve-year-old daughter starts behaving strangely in Georgetown, and the doctors run out of tests. Slow for an hour, and clinical about it.

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    Describe: The Exorcist

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