1998 · 101 min

Dark City

Name: Dark City
Director: Alex Proyas
Released: 1998-02-27

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

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Quick Facts

Confidence: HIGH

Status: Provisional

Director: Alex Proyas

Why It's Disturbing

A nightmarish, sunless dystopia centers on amnesia, implanted memories, identity loss, paranoia, and the manipulation of human beings by powerful entities. The evidence also indicates murder-investigation and serial-killer themes, alongside an unsettling human-experiment premise.

Psychological38

Gore8

Bleakness18

Realism20

Dread46

Violence47

Body Horror5

Taboo8

Lingering Impact23

22.6

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Dark City has a DreadQ Score of 29/100. The score reflects psychological impact, dread, bleakness, violence, gore, realism and other disturbance dimensions.

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