Vicious

Name: Vicious
Genre: Horror
Released: October 10, 2025
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 56

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date (Streaming): October 10, 2025 | R

Summary: A woman spends the night fighting for her existence as she slips down a rabbit hole contained inside a gift from a late-night visitor

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Oct 9, 2025

A sly, sinister film about self-loathing, sacrifice, and the things people will do to survive—with a great tormented performance from Dakota Fanning at its center. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Oct 10, 2025

Bertino and Fanning are deeply committed to going to dark places, and they take us along for their freaky little ride. Whether it makes sense or not. (Probably not.) Read full review

Next Best Picture Lex Briscuso

Oct 16, 2025

Bertino and Fanning make some wholly horrific magic together, and their diabolical efforts culminate in a wonderfully sinister parable that is nearly impossible to forget. Read full review

Collider Shawn Van Horn

Oct 9, 2025

There are more misses than connections in the third act, and for its title, it's never really vicious enough despite the blood and gore to come. Still, it'll keep you on your toes as it's cutting off someone else's. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Oct 8, 2025

It’s as if Bertino the director knows that Bertino the writer hasn’t done quite enough to engender audience interest in Polly’s plight so he seeks to pummel the audience into terror instead of drawing them in. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Oct 9, 2025

Bertino doesn’t need to give us another Strangers, and we certainly do not need anything else in that particular universe, but he needs to give us something more striking, and certainly stranger, than Vicious. Read full review

J. Kim Murphy

Oct 16, 2025

The movie devolves into something inexact and thoughtless, without anything distinct to recenter it. It’s hardly a sin for cruelty to be the point, especially in horror. But you have to at least land your punches. Read full review

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