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Kalifornia (1993)

★ 6.6 · 859 ratings on TMDB

Fear never travels alone.

Kalifornia poster★ 6.6

A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.

DirectorDominic Sena
CastBrad Pitt, David Duchovny, David Milford, John Dullaghan, John Zarchen, Judson Vaughn
GenresCrime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Kalifornia keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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