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Cerebrum

2022 · 96 min

A slow, uneasy descent into grief and denial, where family secrets curdle into something quietly horrifying.

Directed by
Sébastien Blanc
Genres
Horror
Tagline
Death is not the end.
Overview
After waking up from a year-long coma, an insecure young man must fight his controlling father in order to discover what really happened to his seemingly absent mother, as the true consequences of his past actions unravel before him. Richard is stuck in a limbo of denial and lost in the past, thinking that he can essentially reverse it and bring back the dead – with deadly consequences.

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Directed by
Sébastien Blanc
Genres
Horror
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • guilt
  • obsession
  • death
Places
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror7
Humour1
Realism5
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
horror
Directed by
Sébastien Blanc
Written by
Sébastien Blanc
Starring
Tobi King Bakare, Steve Oram, Ramona Von Pusch, Stephanie Lodge
Runtime
96 min
Country
United Kingdom, Switzerland
Languages
English

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