The Parenting

Name: The Parenting
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Released: March 13, 2025
Rating: 45

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Max | Release Date (Streaming): March 13, 2025 | R

Summary: A couple rents a countryside house for a weekend with their parents and then discover it's inhabited by a 400-year-old poltergeist.

Genre(s): Horror, Comedy

Rating: R

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RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Mar 13, 2025

Director Craig Johnson and screenwriter Kent Sublette (“Saturday Night Live”) find a nice balance for the boo-surprises, creepiness, and humor, with a resolution that brings everything and everyone together. Read full review

Collider Luna Guthrie

Mar 12, 2025

The Parenting, which boasts an impressive cast including Brian Cox, Parker Posey, and Edie Falco, takes itself just seriously enough to maintain the impact of both the horror and the comedy, and while it doesn't end up being the most original or breathtaking thing you ever saw, it makes for a fun ride with a lot of character and plenty of heart. Read full review

Screen Rant Hannah Gearan

Mar 14, 2025

It is better at comedy than it is at horror, but it makes even the mystical scenes laugh-out-loud funny in this thoroughly enjoyable ride. Read full review

IndieWire Vikram Murthi

Mar 13, 2025

Shot and directed like a sitcom episode, The Parenting runs on (good, awkward, creepy) vibes, which is probably why Parker Posey, who plays the home’s “mysterious” owner and exposition dispenser, injects energy into the film just by being her off-kilter self. . . Unfortunately, The Parenting isn’t a hangout movie where tone can reign supreme. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Mar 13, 2025

As a comedy, it stops being funny and as a horror it never starts being scary with Johnson’s direction far too drab and lifeless for something so cartoonish and schlocky. Big swing, bigger miss. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Mar 12, 2025

We watch The Parenting in blasé curiosity, as we engage in the purely intellectual exercise of sussing out what’s gone wrong. Read full review

Calum Marsh

Mar 13, 2025

The cast is game — especially Cox, who gets to do some over-the-top Linda Blair mugging — but the script, by a “Saturday Night Live” writer, Kent Sublette, is puerile and abrasive, lacking the wit of “Evil Dead” (an obvious influence) and the brio of “Scary Movie.” Read full review

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