Sator
| Release Date (Streaming): February 9, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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91
Original-CinJim SlotekFeb 12, 2021
A masterpiece of squeamishly uneasy, nightmarish mood-making, the demonic-possession film, Sator is partly in the vein of The Blair Witch Project – though much more sure-handed and stylistically sophisticated. Read full review
86
Paste MagazineJacob OllerFeb 12, 2021
Sator’s dedication to its own nuanced premise, location and tense pace make it the rare horror that’s so aesthetically well-realized you feel like you could crawl inside and live there—if it wasn’t so goddamn scary. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubAnya StanleyFeb 12, 2021
Sator is an effective exercise in what the horror genre does best, underscoring awful truths—in this case, dementia and generational trauma—by making them explicitly monstrous. What Graham understands is that there are few things scarier than the ultimate fragility of the human brain and everything contained within Read full review
80
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaFeb 15, 2021
There’s a lot to love here; searing heretic cinematography included, as long as you’re a fan of horror flicks that *love* taking their damn time. It’s emotionally invasive, disturbing, and brutally unforgiving once Sator’s presence takes hold. Read full review
80
VarietyDennis HarveyFeb 15, 2021
Anyone can pull off a jump scare or three. Graham immediately manages the considerably more difficult task of conjuring a mood of general dread, suffusing ordinary settings with supernatural unease. Read full review
80
The GuardianLeslie FelperinFeb 14, 2021
Graham uses darkness and a very sparse score/soundscape to create a truly disturbing work that relies not so much on gore as the uncanny in its most potent form: stillness, pools of darkness and just-visible figures. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerApr 22, 2021
It's a film that you absorb, until it slithers around and engulfs you. Read full review
75
The Film StageJared MobarakFeb 15, 2021
Everything has a purpose, from the deer whistle to a clearing of bleached white skulls, as modern medicine diagnoses that which our minds can safely process while our eyes warn us about how much worse things might be outside the realm of science. Read full review
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