Went Up the Hill

Name: Went Up the Hill
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Released: August 15, 2025
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 60

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: August 15, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Abandoned as a child, Jack (Dacre Montgomery) travels to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother Elizabeth. There he meets her widow, Jill (Vicky Krieps), who has questions of her own. Over the nights that follow, Elizabeth returns and possesses Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other. JillAbandoned as a child, Jack (Dacre Montgomery) travels to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother Elizabeth. There he meets her widow, Jill (Vicky Krieps), who has questions of her own. Over the nights that follow, Elizabeth returns and possesses Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other. Jill faces Elizabeth’s suicide, while Jack confronts his abandonment. As they learn she is trapped in limbo, Jack begins to doubt Elizabeth’s reason for returning. Caught in a life-threatening nocturnal dance, Jack and Jill must find a way to let go of Elizabeth’s hold before she pushes them to the edge.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Aug 15, 2025

Went Up the Hill doesn’t just explore grief, it expresses it. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Aug 11, 2025

Samuel Van Grinsven’s Went Up the Hill is characterized by a starkly precise aesthetic and withholding approach to the ghost story. Read full review

Jim Vorel

Aug 13, 2025

A queer ghost story with devastating emotional power and transgressive themes of domination, selfishness and abandonment, it is all too often hamstrung by plodding stylistic choices and a thin script that stretches many of its interactions until they’re so thin, threadbare and ethereal that they end up just as spectral. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Sep 5, 2024

Despite a premise that begets one of the strangest lovemaking scenes in recent memory—a quasi-incestuous gender-bending head-spinner—the film is too frequently the epitome of pretentiousness. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

Oct 16, 2025

There’s something missing in this concoction: self-aware humor, a courage of its convictions, a driving force that propels the plot forward . . . Perhaps it was all just too steep a hill to climb. Read full review

The Playlist Warren Cantrell

Sep 3, 2025

Solid performances, a clever conceit, and technical over-competence behind the camera bolster what is ultimately a predictable and sometimes unpleasant viewing experience. Read full review

The Guardian Luke Buckmaster

Sep 10, 2025

Things eventually escalate, the pressure valve of pent-up emotions building and releasing. But it’s a long and demanding ride to get there, full of solemn looks and thousand-yard stares. Read full review

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