Matriarch

Name: Matriarch
Genre: Horror
Released: October 21, 2022
Duration: 85 min
Cast: Andrew Akins, Celinde Schoenmaker, Christina Cole, Frances Ashman, Jamie Davis

2022

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Hulu | Release Date (Streaming): October 21, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrew Akins, Celinde Schoenmaker, Christina Cole, Frances Ashman, Jamie Davis, Jemima Rooper, Kate Dickie, Mandy Aldridge, Nicholas Page Hayman, Nick Haverson, Nini Anamah, Samantha Arnold, Sarah Paul, Simon Meacock, Stephen DeRosa

Summary: After an overdose nearly takes her life, Laura Birch (Jemima Rooper) escapes from the high-stakes pressure of the advertising world to return to her roots. Accepting an invitation home from her estranged mother (Kate Dickie), Laura hopes the time away in the secluded English village will help calm the demons raging inside of her. She soonAfter an overdose nearly takes her life, Laura Birch (Jemima Rooper) escapes from the high-stakes pressure of the advertising world to return to her roots. Accepting an invitation home from her estranged mother (Kate Dickie), Laura hopes the time away in the secluded English village will help calm the demons raging inside of her. She soon discovers that the locals of the town are all protecting an unspeakably dark secret—a secret that involves not only her mother but her own terrifying destiny as well. [Hulu]
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Director: Ben Steiner

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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Andrew Crump

Oct 21, 2022

Just like the black ichor seeping into Laura, Matriarch saturates viewers’ senses until it pays off its many adumbrations with unexpected revelations. Read full review

Noel Murray

Oct 21, 2022

Like Ari Aster’s similarly slippery “Hereditary,” Steiner’s film shrewdly shifts back and forth between the real physical threat of dark supernatural forces and the more elusive harm done by a lifetime of bad parenting. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Oct 20, 2022

Matriarch opens by watching a nude figure descend into a pond of black muck, but the slog that follows in this derivative, tar-flow-paced thriller from Britain is strictly for the viewer. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Nov 2, 2022

Some folk horror that has an intriguing premise but lacks an interesting protagonist, and that is because in the face of the mystery she shows a complete disregard for finding the answers. That's why when the script needs to provide explanations, this is made in a forced manner to keep theSome folk horror that has an intriguing premise but lacks an interesting protagonist, and that is because in the face of the mystery she shows a complete disregard for finding the answers. That's why when the script needs to provide explanations, this is made in a forced manner to keep the plot moving forward.

Details are sparse and the film focuses more on atmosphere and visuals. The development is slow and the horror itself is scarce.
Its effectiveness as I said is focused on the visuals. It's not a film of jumpscares or violence, so if that's what you're looking for, you're going to have to find it elsewhere.

There's more ideas, vigor and ambition than comprehension, but from the results it seems like the director understood that a more complex route would have been more problematic for his story and while he doesn't deliver everything on a silver platter, you won't break your head trying to make sense of it either.… Expand

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Orukayu

Jan 22, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Horror movie produced in 2022, which cannot even be considered mediocre. Although the environment in the film is very suitable for tension, the tension decreases as it progresses. It deals with the story of a woman who has addicted herself to drugs and alcohol due to depression, leaving her life in the city and going to her mother, whom she never loved. His mother lives in a village and everyone in the village is a weirdo. The plot could have been a good book, but the movie is both boring and silly.

The woman's mother is weird. In time, he too is trying to sacrifice his daughter. There is a swamp. The swamp has supernatural powers. The woman's mother uses these supernatural powers as her own to heal the villagers. Turns out the swamp was alive. In fact, his daughter was the daughter of the swamp, not his own.

There is plenty of sexuality and nudity in the movie.… Expand

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