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Horror movies need to be more than a big mood

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Summary
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69% Informative

This summer ’s three biggest relatively high-brow, low-budget horror films — Maxxxine, Longlegs , and Cuckoo — represent a move toward big moods rather than big ideas.

All three traffic in atmosphere rather than actual scares.

Of the bunch, MaXXXine gets the closest to having an idea.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is best known for two horror masterpieces, Pulse and Cure .

Penance leans heavily on its conceit: a young girl is murdered in a small town, and the four friends who met the killer cannot recall his face.

Despite being uneven in places, Penance always feels like it’s structurally and thematically consistent.

VR Score

59

Informative language

49

Neutral language

75

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

42

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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Time-value

medium-lived

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