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“A boy's fascination with death after seeing a dog's corpse spirals into grotesque phobias.”
The Thaw
ゆきどけ
4.02
14,742 rank · 5,495 viewers · 7 favorites
Avant Garde
Horror
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Synopsis
A boy's fascination with death after seeing a dog's corpse spirals into grotesque phobias.
The short film tells the story of a young boy, who as a result of seeing a dog's corpse, becomes interested in the bodies of living things and starts to develop phobias. Before long all manner of things begin to appear grotesque to him. (Source: Wochi Kochi)
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Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
5.4
/10
What 8 viewers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5.5
mode 7
σ 2.60
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.60 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.3 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 2.7
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Score over time
↑ 0.38
Running avg · Jan 2016 → May 2021
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Yukidoke (The Thaw) is a conceptual work. In of itself, it shows the viewer the perspective of a boy who sees a dog's carcass, and from then on plunges into his own fears. Due to the nature of the...”
- 10 “see, most people get the wrong idea about this amazing show. You are to dense to see through to what is really happening. this is an ordinary boy and it is clearly portraying the imagination of a...”
- 7 “As someone who used to have phobias, I think this is a pretty accurate way to deliver it. I had goosebumps all over again because all of this sounded and looked so similar to something I had a long...”
Verbosity
Short · 63%
Medium · 38%
Long · 0%
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A Movie Production
- Format 1 × 6′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 06m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2004 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-8799 catalog