Death of Me(2020)
2020 · Darren Lynn Bousman · 95 min
A couple on holiday on a remote South Pacific island awaken one morning with a hang over and no recollection of what transpired. When playing back a video of the previous night, they see they participated in a local ritual that somehow ends with him murdering her.
Horror · Mystery
5.0276 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How Death of Me scares
The story starts with a groggy, confused morning-after feeling and slowly tightens into paranoia as the couple piece together fuzzy memories from the night before. It unfolds at a deliberate pace, letting dread build through unease and strange details rather than throwing constant scares at you, though it does pick up with some jarring, hallucinatory moments as things unravel. Most of the fear comes from losing control of your own mind and surroundings rather than pure physical danger, though there's real bodily threat once things escalate. It's a heavier, unsettling watch better suited to people who like slow-building weirdness over quick jump scares.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Death of Me rates psychological 4/5, visceral 3/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 20 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 65 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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Starts as a woozy, confusing mystery that keeps ratcheting up its unease until it becomes a full-on frantic sprint by the end.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5.
How scary is Death of Me?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Death of Me rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and genuinely disturbing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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