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Expectancy

2020 · 14 min

A slow-creeping dread seeps through domestic spaces as an unborn future turns menacing, leaving you uneasy about parenthood.

Directed by
Juho Fossi
Genres
Horror
Starring
Anna Böhm, Heikki Ranta
Overview
Alex is left alone for the weekend to renovate a room for his and his wife's unborn child. Soon, a baby monitor starts to play him haunting, horrifying sounds about his future failures as a father.

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Directed by
Juho Fossi
Genres
Horror
Starring
Anna Böhm, Heikki Ranta
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • isolation
  • guilt
  • identity
  • fate
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror8
Humour0
Realism6
Romance1
Tension9
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
horror
Directed by
Juho Fossi
Written by
Juho Fossi, Avi Heikkinen
Starring
Anna Böhm, Heikki Ranta
Cinematography
Jesse Jalonen
Runtime
14 min
Country
Finland
Languages
Finnish

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