Chime(2024)
2024 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 45 min
A chef's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
Horror · Thriller
6.896 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How scary is Chime?
There's a quiet, off-kilter unease that settles in almost immediately and never fully resolves, like something is wrong just beneath the surface of ordinary life. The pace is slow and deliberate, with long stretches of everyday behavior interrupted by a strange, unexplained sound that seems to trigger something unsettling in the people who hear it. It leans hard into ambiguity, never spelling out what's really happening, which makes it feel more like a waking bad dream than a traditional scary movie. This is for viewers who like their horror strange, minimal, and open to interpretation rather than loud or bloody.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Chime rates psychological 5/5, visceral 2/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 10 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 50 of 100 — balanced
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 78 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A quiet, unsettling drift that keeps getting interrupted by sudden jolts of shock, never fully settling into calm or full-blown chaos.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3.
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