One for the Road (2021) poster
2021 · drama · road-trip · illness

One for the Road

Directed by Joseph Horning43m2021
  • sombre

Gerard Lumley and his family are on their way to visit relatives in Maine. Lost on the back highways of New England, the Lumley's end up stranded on the outskirts of the abandoned town of Jerusalem's Lot where almost forty years early the town was overrun by vampires. Leaving his wife and daughter behind, Gerard Lumley goes for help and finds it from two unlikely hero...

Our read · One for the Road (2021) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · road-trip · illness entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Sandy LawlerRoger MiddletonEric SlodyskoWayne ShearerVeronica Garrubbo
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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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