Movie

Fever Dream

2021 · 93 min

A disorienting, dread-soaked puzzle that drifts between memory and warning, leaving you uneasy and unsettled long after.

Tagline: Pay attention.
Overview: A woman named Amanda lies stricken, far from home. A young boy named David questions her, trying to make her remember. She's not his mother, he's not her son. As her time is running out, he helps her unravel a powerful, haunting story of obsessive jealousy, an invisible danger, and the power of a mother's love for her child.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, dark and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Parenthood, isolation, fate, death
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 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: parenthood
isolation
fate
death
environment
Places: countryside
small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild