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Butterfly Kiss

1995 · 88 min

A grim, hypnotic road movie that drifts through motorway service stations toward a quietly devastating, almost religious doom.

Genres
Crime, Drama, Romance
Tagline
A story of love and redemption.
Overview
Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 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
  • obsession
  • madness
  • love
  • faith
  • death
Places
  • road trip
  • countryside
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror6
Humour1
Realism7
Romance5
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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