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Dead Boy Detectives

2024NetflixHorror

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Two dead schoolboys who refuse to move on and open a detective agency instead, out of the Sandman comics.

Dead Boy Detectives opens with a main title sequence of 79 seconds.

At 79 seconds, it opens well above the 50-second median for horror sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on Netflix in 2024, when Big Mouth, Cobra Kai and Elite were also on the network.

1 sequence228th most looked up of 422 in the 2020sIMDb ↗
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