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A Head Full of Ghosts

A slow, unsettling descent into family dread, filtered through memory and media, leaving a lingering chill.

Overview: The Barretts’ suburban life is torn apart when their teenage daughter’s descent into madness becomes the subject of a reality show. Fifteen years later, her sister Merry faces her family’s haunting past with a journalist, uncovering the very nature of the evil that destroyed them.
How it feels: Dark, eerie, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Madness, family, trauma, memory
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: madness
family
trauma
memory
media
Places: suburbs
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild