9.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama, Horror, Thriller • 2026 • 100 min
Mendocino (2026)
Mendocino (2026)
Overview
Mendocino follows a lawyer who retreats to a California farmhouse and confronts ancestral violence, guilt, and haunting memories. The horror-drama frame, with its focus on inherited trauma and the weight of the past, sits comfortably in a progressive cultural space where psychological reckoning with history is the central moral project. Evidence on this 2025 film is thin, so the Progressive label is driven more by genre signals than confirmed content. Supernatural dramas built around guilt, redemption, and ancestral harm tend to carry progressive assumptions about collective responsibility. No traditional-leaning signals surfaced to balance that read.
Starring Cast
Zaramok Bachok • Katherine Gibson • Lonny Street
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Not Rated
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Not Rated
Viewer Rating
9.6
Overview
Mendocino follows a lawyer who retreats to a California farmhouse and confronts ancestral violence, guilt, and haunting memories. The horror-drama frame, with its focus on inherited trauma and the weight of the past, sits comfortably in a progressive cultural space where psychological reckoning with history is the central moral project. Evidence on this 2025 film is thin, so the Progressive label is driven more by genre signals than confirmed content. Supernatural dramas built around guilt, redemption, and ancestral harm tend to carry progressive assumptions about collective responsibility. No traditional-leaning signals surfaced to balance that read.
Starring Cast
Zaramok Bachok • Katherine Gibson • Lonny Street
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Not Rated
Primary
Political: Not Rated
Web evidence is insufficient to determine political bias or thematic framing.
Diversity: Not Rated
Web searches returned no usable details on specific casting decisions or narrative framing regarding traditional identities and DEI themes for this film.
Secondary
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes appear in the film.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film centers on a lawyer confronting ancestral violence and memories in a California farmhouse, with no identifiable transgender characters or themes depicted.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Original supernatural thriller inspired by unspecified American historical events; no legacy characters, adaptations, or documented historical figures recast with opposite-gender portrayals.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
No established source material, prior canon, or named historical figures with documented races exist for the characters. The film is an original supernatural thriller inspired by unspecified American historical events, with no mismatches between any character's baseline race and on-screen portrayal.
Family Values: N/R
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
9.2
10.0
Critic Ratings
N/A
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