included · Communication

Resolution

Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead · 93 minutes

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Communication.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Michael handcuffs his addict friend Chris in a remote cabin to force him through withdrawal, and keeps finding photos, slides and recordings that show other people's fates and then their own possible deaths in the days ahead. Those messages from an unseen entity, which sees past and future, steer the men's choices throughout and make the film a story about being watched across time. The temporal communication is the central premise, but Resolution itself never shows travel or a reset; the endless loop it ends on is only implied, and spelled out later in The Endless, so it stays at 5.

Mysterious recordings show possible future deaths and direct the men’s actions; later franchise context suggests a repeating interval as well.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan25.1

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance5/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.5/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 62.86 base × 40.0% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Oberst Jr., Emily Montague

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

5 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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