
The Dead Center
Taste attributes: horrormysterythrillermonster/alien/supernaturalfresh & originalunsavouryheavyimaginarygrittyenclosedemotive & stirringfighting evilhuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardyself destruction/implosionsolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeMorally murky and intimate: an otherworldly horror film, heavy rather than light. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: very dark · Weight: very heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: gritty · Scale: very confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
Quality rating
5.5 /10
TMDB · 41 votes
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What lines up
- Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
- Weightiness: Weighty / heavy, just how this profile likes it
- Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Realism: Imaginary world, where this profile leans balanced realism
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Synopsis
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
Synopsis: TMDB
Taste Attributes
Characteristics
Where this title sits on each taste spectrum
Directed by
- Billy Senese
Cast
- Shane Carruth
- Poorna Jagannathan
- Jeremy Childs
- Bill Feehely
- J. Thomas Bailey
Details
- Genre
- Horror
- Year
- 2019
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Sequitur Cinema
- Taste scores
- How we score
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Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.











