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The Believers

1987Movie1 h 54 minR

HorrorMystery
48
MediocreGoodWatch score
IMDb6.1Metacritic407.0Rotten Tomatoes35%45%
48
MediocreGoodWatch score
IMDb6.1Metacritic407.0Rotten Tomatoes35%45%

Summary

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

Good for

  • Friends night
  • Thought-provoking
  • Adults

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  • You need an uplifting mood
  • You want to half-watch while scrolling
  • Graphic violence bothers you
  • You scare easily

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Fingerprint

  • Keeps you on edge.
  • Weighs on you.
  • Keeps you guessing.
  • Puts you inside a crime.
  • Leaves you shaken.

Not for warmth, comfort or laughs.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Tropes

Hollywood Voodooin 124 titlesThe titular villains are members of a voodoo cult; based on a book titled The Religion.Agent Scullyin 312 titlesMcTaggart starts off this way, but the more the evidence stacks up, he shifts into an Agent Mulder himself.All 36 tropes

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