
The Rift
They are watching us.
Directed by Robert Kouba
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.
Clusters
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.
Cinnamon Score
How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.
Conventional, and it does not land.
How unlike any other film this one feels
How much more it delivers than it promises
How much audiences actually like it
Ensemble
Like The Rift
Nearest across the full emotional profile.
Same Mood as The Rift
Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.
Like The Rift, But Darker
Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.
Like The Rift, But Lighter
Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.
Like The Rift, But Less Popular
Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

















































