Movie

The Deed

2025 · 85 min

A quiet, creeping unease settles in as a lonely man's fresh start curdles into something haunted and oppressive.

Overview: Laki (25 years old, courageous, righteous, anxiously paranoid) is a graduate art historian, unemployed, in a perspectiveless environment, he decides to become independent at his great-grandfather's abandoned cottage.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, dark and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Isolation, grief, guilt, memory
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
grief
guilt
memory
survival
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none