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#Alive

#Alive

Action · Horror · Science Fiction · 2020

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

Movie details

#Alive

“You must survive.”

2020 Action · Horror · Science Fiction 1h 38m

Critical arithmetic

One number, for now.

TMDB

7.2 / 10

Community rating

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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 #Alive?

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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28 Years Later

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Land of the Dead

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Peninsula

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Containment

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28 Weeks Later

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The Divide

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Cho Il

Written by

Matt Naylor

Yoo Ah-in

Yoo Ah-in

Oh Joon-woo

Park Shin-hye

Park Shin-hye

Kim Yoo-bin

Lee Hyun-wook

Lee Hyun-wook

Lee Sang-chul

Jin So-yeon

Jin So-yeon

Elena Kim

Kim Hak-sun

Kim Hak-sun

Joon-woo's Father

So Hee-jung

So Hee-jung

Joon-woo's Mother

Joo Bo-bi

Joo Bo-bi

Joon-woo's Sister

Court is in session

Put #Alive on trial.

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

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“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 Popcorn Loyalist

“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.