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Recent Examples of eeriness
Writer-director Kermani, who previously demonstrated her horror bona-fides with Lucky and Abraham’s Boys, strains mightily but fails to match the brilliant eeriness of the Japanese film that served as her inspiration.
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Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
McKinley shot the film in Germany, with cinematographer Matteo Cocco, where the forest lends a dislocating eeriness to the environment.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026
Thus, with those over the age of 33 consigned to ashy nothingness, and everyone else expecting to only live a few more years, the world of Clair Obscur is almost unbearably strange and sad, suffused with a genuinely desolate eeriness.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
The humor connects with the eeriness.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2025
Others commented on the eeriness of discovering unfamiliar images in one’s personal gallery and the realization of how default app settings can confuse or alarm users.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
There is a matter-of-factness to DP Keisuke Imamura’s flat, bright images that creates a hyperreal eeriness all the more uneasy for being the polar opposite of a horror movie’s usual dark corners and shadowy depths.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
McKinley shot the film in Germany, with cinematographer Matteo Cocco, where the forest lends a dislocating eeriness to the environment.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026
Thus, with those over the age of 33 consigned to ashy nothingness, and everyone else expecting to only live a few more years, the world of Clair Obscur is almost unbearably strange and sad, suffused with a genuinely desolate eeriness.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
The humor connects with the eeriness.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2025
Others commented on the eeriness of discovering unfamiliar images in one’s personal gallery and the realization of how default app settings can confuse or alarm users.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
There is a matter-of-factness to DP Keisuke Imamura’s flat, bright images that creates a hyperreal eeriness all the more uneasy for being the polar opposite of a horror movie’s usual dark corners and shadowy depths.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eeriness
Noun
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All three were cult exploitation films from Brownrigg, a producer-director known for his ability to create creepiness with very little money.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Feb. 2026
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The theater comes by its creepiness honestly.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There’s ample gore and jumpy moments, but the true scariness here is of the forlorn kind; leads Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen play the mounting nightmare with ache and desperation, elevating the emotional tenor of a dolefully eerie movie.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Jan. 2026
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In Howard Schwartz’s version of Rabbinic folktales, the images and storylines of Jewish folklore become colorful, polymorphic, and wondrous while never losing an aura of ancient scariness.—
Jon Raymond
August 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Eeriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eeriness. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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