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The Domestics

The Domestics

Horror · Thriller · 2018

A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.

Movie details

The Domestics

“In the end, defend.”

2018 Horror · Thriller 1h 35m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

5.7 / 10

12K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

100 %

Tomatometer

TMDB

6.1 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Domestics?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

TMDB supplies the candidates. CriticWise reorders them by craft, strangeness, prestige, emotion, and pace.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Mike P. Nelson

Written by

Mike P. Nelson

Kate Bosworth

Kate Bosworth

Nina West

Tyler Hoechlin

Tyler Hoechlin

Mark West

Sonoya Mizuno

Sonoya Mizuno

Betsy

Lance Reddick

Lance Reddick

Nathan Wood

Kaden Washington Lewis

Kaden Washington Lewis

Steven Wood

Jacinte Blankenship

Jacinte Blankenship

Theresa Wood

Mikaela Kimani Armstrong

Mikaela Kimani Armstrong

Bella Wood

Court is in session

Put The Domestics on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Cool Ironist

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.