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Creatures Unknown

2020 · 1 season

A slow, quietly unsettling island mystery that lets strange details pile up while ordinary people stay oblivious.

Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Fu Xiaoxian, Yu Xintian, Wang Cheng
Overview
What is the black mucus appearing everywhere? What was missing from the missing high school student, Shang Shangjie? Why is there a strange sound in the dry well on Haichao Street? Who do the Ph.D.s in those black people point to? Everything shows that a huge crisis is quietly approaching the inhabitants of the island, and the good people know nothing about it ..

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Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Fu Xiaoxian, Yu Xintian, Wang Cheng
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • mystery
    • isolation
    • conspiracy
    Places
    • small town
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror5
    Humour1
    Realism6
    Romance1
    Tension6
    Darkness6
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, mystery
    Starring
    Fu Xiaoxian, Yu Xintian, Wang Cheng, Wu Xingjian, Ma Jiaming, Song Haijie, Song Qi
    Length
    1 seasons, 12 episodes, 27 min each
    Network
    iQiyi
    Country
    China
    Languages
    Mandarin

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