The Rift

The Rift

They are watching us.

Directed by Robert Kouba

201226 min4.9 / 10

A paranoid sci-fi thriller about mysterious extraterrestrial surveillance and an impending cosmic incursion, built on decades of hidden observation and mounting dread.

Since a few decades they were watching us. Studying us. What are they? Nobody knows. Nobody but Ivan Petrenko Karkarov. The Russian physicist started to study a phenomenon which was occurring since several decades. In 1982 he found an answer to the strange phenomenon but before he could tell anyone he mysteriously vanished. 30 years later, in Newell Iowa, Dean Hollister seems to be a normal guy until strange radar anomalies appear throughout the world. All of a sudden something starts to happen at the sky, black rifts appear. Behind those rifts something is moving. It's watching us.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Rift scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 95% of films.

  • Does The Rift end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 83% of films.

  • Is The Rift easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is The Rift violent? Somewhat. More violent than 59% of films.

  • Is The Rift sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

7/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity12

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise6

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love4

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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