Is We Need to Talk About Kevin scary?

Not particularly — We Need to Talk About Kevin's appeal is atmospheric or thematic rather than overtly scary. As a horror film, it scored 0.5/10 for fear, 6.0/10 for atmosphere, and 7.4/10 overall on Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

What are some films like We Need to Talk About Kevin?

Films similar to We Need to Talk About Kevin on Darkly include Nightcrawler (2014), Happy Death Day (2017), Christine (1983) — selected by cosine similarity on the 4-dimensional curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

2011 · R · 1h 53m

This conversation is long overdue.

After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

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7.4

Overall

Fear0.5

Gore1.0

Atmosphere6.0

Jump Scares0 — no jump scares

LanguageEnglish

RatingR

Running time1h 53m

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