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Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Dark Places
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Case Histories 2004Also grave, contemporary and spare
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A Spark of Light 2018Also grave, contemporary and earnest
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Heartwood 2025Also grave, contemporary and earnest
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The same feel, in other forms
Films
The Exorcism of Emily Rose 2005Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Femme 2023Also grave, contemporary and bleak
A Bittersweet Life 2005Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Series
The Beast in Me 2025Also grave, contemporary and spare
Flowers of Evil 2013Also grave, contemporary and spare
The Sinner 2017Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Albums
- Glyph 1995Also grave, contemporary and earnest
- Dagger & Guitar 1983Also grave, contemporary and earnest
- South of Heaven 1988Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Games
Darq 2019Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Selma and the Wisp 2016Also grave, contemporary and earnest
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