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Reality Check

2002 · 88 min

A cheap, claustrophobic reality-TV slasher that trades plausibility for jump scares and paranoid housebound bickering.

Directed by: Rafal Zielinski
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Starring: Natalia Cigliuti, Timothy Lee DePriest, Nate Dushku

Tagline: They're dying to be on TV
Overview: Four young women and three young men, totally strangers to each other, are sent to an isolated house with the crew members of a reality show to stay living together for three months without any means of communication with the exterior, and in the end, the winner will get a prize of US$ 100,000.00. When the cameraman is found dead in a barn, the group becomes hysterical, since nobody knows who is trustful.

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Directed by: Rafal Zielinski
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Starring: Natalia Cigliuti, Timothy Lee DePriest, Nate Dushku

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
media
greed
deception
survival
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Horror	6
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	3

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Genres: horror, thriller
Directed by: Rafal Zielinski
Written by: Chum Langhorne, Brent Askari
Starring: Natalia Cigliuti, Timothy Lee DePriest, Nate Dushku, Julie Ann Emery, Sticky Fingaz, Kristen Miller, Courtney Peldon, Kym Hoy
Cinematography: Seo Mutarevic
Runtime: 88 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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