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Housewife

2017 · 82 min

A disorienting, dreamlike slide into nightmare, unsettling and cold, where reality keeps slipping and you never quite feel safe.

Directed by
Can Evrenol
Genres
Horror
Starring
Clémentine Poidatz, David Sakurai, Alicia Kapudağ
Tagline
There's Only You And Your Dreams
Overview
Housewife is centered on Holly whose mother murdered her sister and father when she was seven. 20 years later and slowly losing her grip on the difference between reality and nightmares, she runs into a celebrity psychic who claims that he is destined to help her.

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Directed by
Can Evrenol
Genres
Horror
Starring
Clémentine Poidatz, David Sakurai, Alicia Kapudağ
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • trauma
  • madness
  • memory
  • isolation
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror8
Humour1
Realism4
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
horror
Directed by
Can Evrenol
Written by
Cem Özüduru, Can Evrenol
Starring
Clémentine Poidatz, David Sakurai, Alicia Kapudağ, Ali Aksöz, Defne Halman, Zuri Sen, Elif Gülalp, Güneş Galava
Cinematography
Tayman Tekin
Runtime
82 min
Country
Turkey, United States of America
Languages
English

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