The Kettering Incident
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Like Black Spot, it turns an isolated, forest-ringed community into a place of accumulating dread, blending a damaged investigator’s personal history with eerie mysteries and a slow, atmospheric investigation.
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Why this pick
Like Black Spot, it turns an isolated, forest-ringed community into a place of accumulating dread, blending a damaged investigator’s personal history with eerie mysteries and a slow, atmospheric investigation.
Why this pick
A remote town, mounting deaths and an unforgiving natural landscape create the same brooding, uncanny procedural mood, with community secrets gradually making the investigation feel more threatening.
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This bleak Icelandic investigation shares Black Spot’s somber visual chill, troubled law-enforcement leads and an escalating murder case rooted in long-buried local trauma.
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Its Alpine border setting and ritualistic crimes deliver similarly wintry, folkloric unease, while two very different detectives navigate a case that grows stranger and more personal.
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A wounded detective returning to a claustrophobic rural community gives this Belgian mystery the same intimate darkness, suspicious townsfolk and deliberate, oppressive investigative pace.
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01 / THE STORY
Villefranche is a small town with no phone reception on the edge of a mysterious forest. The number of inhabitants is dwindling but there's a sharp rise in crime. Police inspector Laurene, once the victim of a crime herself, keeps on discovering fresh corpses.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Laurène Weiss

Martial Ferrandis / Nounours
Franck Siriani

Bertrand Steiner
Louis Hermann

Camille Laugier
Cora Weiss
Léa Steiner