Don't Leave Home

Name: Don't Leave Home
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: September 14, 2018
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Anna Margaret Hollyman, David McSavage, Helena Bereen, Karrie Cox, Lalor Roddy

2018

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| Release Date: September 14, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Anna Margaret Hollyman, David McSavage, Helena Bereen, Karrie Cox, Lalor Roddy, Mark Lawrence

Summary: Melanie Thomas is an American artist whose latest show recounts the infamous Irish urban legend of Father Alistair Burke, who painted a portrait of 8-year-old Siobhan Callahan in 1986. Days later, Siobhan went missing on the very morning that her figure miraculously vanished from the painting as well. Though absolved of any wrongdoing,Melanie Thomas is an American artist whose latest show recounts the infamous Irish urban legend of Father Alistair Burke, who painted a portrait of 8-year-old Siobhan Callahan in 1986. Days later, Siobhan went missing on the very morning that her figure miraculously vanished from the painting as well. Though absolved of any wrongdoing, Burke abandoned the priesthood and went into self-exile. After receiving a bad review before her opening, Melanie is contacted by the reclusive Burke, who offers to fly her to Ireland to create a new sculpture that he will help her to sell while she’s there. Telling no one where she’s going, Melanie never stops to consider that some urban legends are real.… Expand

Director: Michael Tully

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Mar 16, 2018

The closing minutes are a completely original sort of survival drama, one that defies precise explanation even as it delivers significant payoff. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Sep 13, 2018

Tully, along with cinematographer Wyatt Garfield and composer Michael Montes, has crafted an elegantly creepy pastiche. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

Sep 13, 2018

Slow, deliberate and often unexpectedly funny, Michael Tully’s (Ping Pong Summer) contribution to the ever-growing Irish horror catalogue is refreshingly original even if it lacks the jump scare pay off to its heavily-signposted creepiness. Read full review

The Playlist Andrew Crump

Mar 16, 2018

Tthe best elements of Don’t Leave Home – its foreboding tone, its photography, and Roddy Sr.’s soulful, remorseful performance as Burke – override its head-scratching missteps. Read full review

Paul Parcellin

Sep 14, 2018

It’s easy to forgive its melodramatic excesses, especially if you happen to be partial to the genre. And things do pick up as the story unfolds. Read full review

Geoff Berkshire

Sep 14, 2018

Eerie and haunting without ever being outright scary, Don't Leave Home is different enough from current trends in horror to be of at least some interest to hardcore genre buffs. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Sep 13, 2018

The result is a diverting-to-a-point curio whose nice atmospherics and good performances ultimately don’t add up to quite enough to satisfy the constructs of horror, allegory, satire — or anything else. Read full review

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Rcavey92212

Mar 24, 2020

This is really an intriguing little horror gem. It centers on an artist from America who creates a series of sculptures based on famous missing person cases. One of them spotlights a priest whom painted a portrait of a young girl who ended up disappearing both from her home and the picture.This is really an intriguing little horror gem. It centers on an artist from America who creates a series of sculptures based on famous missing person cases. One of them spotlights a priest whom painted a portrait of a young girl who ended up disappearing both from her home and the picture. The priest contracts her with the promise to buy her piece inspired by him, commission a new work and have all her pieces sold to wealthy investors at a private auction. Upon arriving strange things begin to happen including strange dreams and weird happenings that lead her to believe the offer isn't genuine and something more sinister is afoot. It all leads up to a shocking and unexpected conclusion. It's definitely a religious horror film but plays like a strange Lynchian thriller. It's not perfect the pacing is a struggle at times but it has an engaging, dread induced atmosphere that feels otherworldly at times.

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DirigiblePulp

Sep 30, 2018

A strong premise about painting and "evil miracles" leads to an arrhythmically paced slow-burn that forfeits tension whenever it starts to get something good going. The climax in particular is promising but is over so abruptly it's ultimately not worth the wait.

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Brent_Marchant

Sep 16, 2018

If you're tempted to see this one, follow the advice given in the film's title. This atmospheric offering features beautiful cinematography but not much else -- a slow, laborious story that continually promises much but delivers little, leaving viewers wonder why they should care about anyIf you're tempted to see this one, follow the advice given in the film's title. This atmospheric offering features beautiful cinematography but not much else -- a slow, laborious story that continually promises much but delivers little, leaving viewers wonder why they should care about any of this. And, as for the alleged horror angle of this release, I've seen scarier breakfast cereal commercials. "Don't Leave Home"? -- don't waste your time.… Expand

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