The Outwaters

Name: The Outwaters
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror
Released: February 10, 2023
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Agnieszka Cieslak, Angela Basolis, Aro Caitlin, Christine Brown, Leslie Ann Banfitch

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Cinedigm | Release Date: February 10, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Agnieszka Cieslak, Angela Basolis, Aro Caitlin, Christine Brown, Leslie Ann Banfitch, Melissa Andrea, Michelle May, Nancy Bujnowski, Robbie Banfitch, Scott Schamell

Summary: Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.

Director: Robbie Banfitch

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Slashfilm Lex Briscuso

Jan 23, 2023

The Outwaters is an immersive hellmouth waiting to, quite literally, swallow us up and spit us back out into the landscape more horrified of what the universe is capable of than ever before — and trust me, you don't stand a chance against what it has in store for you. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Feb 6, 2023

With The Outwaters, the found-footage horror film has unexpectedly found its trippy, unmooring, ultraviolent answer to the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft and the free-associative barbarity of A Page of Madness. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

Feb 10, 2023

A stunning embrace of abject horror that peels back the layers of skin just as it does those of the mind, The Outwaters stumbles upon a brutal brilliance in the desolation of the desert. Read full review

Alejandra Martinez

Feb 3, 2023

The Outwaters is a movie that rewards patience and gives your mind the freedom to run away with its setup and follow it to the bitter end. There is certainly a lot happening here, and it doesn’t all make sense or have an explanation, but that’s the (terrifying) point. Read full review

Noel Murray

Feb 26, 2023

Some may find all this tedious or confusing, but there’s an admirable integrity to Banfitch’s approach. The Outwaters genuinely feels like a first-person perspective on the end of the world. Read full review

K. Austin Collins

Feb 9, 2023

Even when it seems at risk of spinning its wheels into oblivion, there’s an urgent pleasure in watching it spin. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Feb 9, 2023

The Outwaters stumbles because it fails to clear the second hurdle of any found footage movie: not simply answering why would the camera stay on (that's the easy part), but why would anyone edit what's been recovered in this way? Read full review

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MalwareLord

May 18, 2023

It's weird and too obscure. Can't recommend it to average horror fans. Watch if you are out of options

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JLuis_001

Sep 5, 2023

It's disheartening to witness a film that introduces a more ambitious and darker narrative than what is typically encountered in the found footage genre, only to squander its potential on all the conventions and clichés that the genre provides.

It's just more of the same old stuff.

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DaGreaseman

Mar 29, 2023

It has a few scenes with decent cinematography, but other than that, this movie is a messy amalgam of ideas that don't work at all. The childish shock value ending made my theater erupt in laughter. I feel like that wasn't the intention, but I guess I'm not sure what the intention of thisIt has a few scenes with decent cinematography, but other than that, this movie is a messy amalgam of ideas that don't work at all. The childish shock value ending made my theater erupt in laughter. I feel like that wasn't the intention, but I guess I'm not sure what the intention of this movie was.… Expand

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jmgwis

Apr 23, 2023

Literally one of the worst movies I have ever seen. And I have watched thousands of horror movies.

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