Movie

A Distant Scream

1984 · 72 min

A quiet, haunted chamber piece that drifts between memory and regret, asking you to lean in as a dying man retraces a fatal weekend.

Overview: Lying on his deathbed, an elderly man who has spent most of his life in prison for the murder of the woman he loved is granted a supernatural chance to go back to that fateful weekend and attempt to discover what really happened...
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, tense and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Memory, guilt, love, mystery
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 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: memory
guilt
love
mystery
death
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild