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The Picture of Dorian Gray(1945)

Name: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Genre: Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Released: 1945
Duration: 111 min

1945 · Albert Lewin · 111 min

A handsome young man trades his soul so that his portrait ages while he stays eternally young.

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Drama · Horror · Fantasy

7.1310 votes

TMDB score

2/5

Intensity

1/5

Gore

3/5

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How scary is The Picture of Dorian Gray?

There's a heavy, uneasy feeling that builds slowly across the whole movie rather than any sudden scares. Most of the runtime plays like an elegant period drama, but a quiet dread creeps in as you sense something is wrong beneath the surface, and the horror mostly lands in a handful of striking, unsettling images rather than constant tension. It leans more sad and disturbing than thrilling, with a moral, almost fairy-tale sense of doom hanging over everything. Good for people who like slow, atmospheric, old-fashioned horror with class and mood rather than fright.

On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Picture of Dorian Gray rates psychological 4/5, visceral 1/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 2/5.

Psychological: 4 of 5
Visceral: 1 of 5
Gore: 1 of 5
Lingering: 3 of 5
Intensity: 2 of 5

Slow burn vs Jump scares: 10 of 100 — leans Slow burn

Slow burnJump scares

Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural

SupernaturalReal-world

Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 55 of 100 — balanced

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A slow, elegant character study that quietly accumulates dread until a tense, unsettling final stretch.

Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4.

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