What Josiah Saw

Name: What Josiah Saw
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: August 4, 2022
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Jake Weber, Kelli Garner, Louanne Stephens, Nick Stahl, Robert Patrick

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Shudder | Release Date (Streaming): August 4, 2022 | NR

Starring: Jake Weber, Kelli Garner, Louanne Stephens, Nick Stahl, Robert Patrick, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Scott Haze, Tony Hale, Troy Powell, Winston James Francis

Summary: A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse to pay for their past sins. Josiah (Robert Patrick) and his youngest son, Thomas (Scott Haze), are all that remain of an estranged family. But after experiencing terrifying visions from beyond, Josiah decides they must change their ways to right a great wrong. After being away for overA family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse to pay for their past sins. Josiah (Robert Patrick) and his youngest son, Thomas (Scott Haze), are all that remain of an estranged family. But after experiencing terrifying visions from beyond, Josiah decides they must change their ways to right a great wrong. After being away for over two decades, Eli (Nick Stahl) and Mary (Kelli Garner), Josiah's eldest children, are enticed to sell the property and reunite at the old farmhouse in hopes of closing this haunting chapter of their lives for good. Sins of the past will be paid in full.… Expand

Director: Vincent Grashaw

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: NR

Runtime: 120 min

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Bobby LePire

Aug 5, 2022

What Josiah Saw examines religion, trauma, grief, sanity, and familial bonds in a truly unique way. Grashaw elegantly balances the heavy drama, action, and horror moments, crafting an unforgettable journey. Dilts intelligent screenplay is brought to life by a stunning cast giving it their all in every scene. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

Aug 4, 2022

It is enigmatic and eerie in a manner that crawls under your skin until you feel like you can't escape it. It is proof that films like this, even as they are enormously painful, can reveal the dark truths of being alive in ways other works shy away from. It reflects how life can often have no respite from tragedy, instead burrowing deeper and deeper into it. It succeeds in capturing this state of being, meticulously and ruthlessly ripping away the past until the future comes crashing down. Read full review

The Guardian Phil Hoad

Aug 4, 2022

It has a stubborn, almost literary feel for character that accumulates a baleful momentum by the time the finale hits. Read full review

Aurora Amidon

Aug 4, 2022

If Grashaw had simply trusted his instincts a little more and allowed Josiah to exist as a simple meditation on one family’s traumas, it would have easily joined the ranks of the great cinematic Southern Gothic horrors. Read full review

Noel Murray

Aug 7, 2022

Dilts and Grashaw build out What Josiah Saw thoughtfully, letting the dread from one story bleed into the next, until everything is covered in a dark, dark stain. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Aug 4, 2022

Sluggish pacing slightly undermines the film’s main assets — the strong performances from Kelli Garner as Mary and a suitably ravaged-looking Nick Stahl as Eli. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Aug 4, 2022

The family trauma is so clotted-thick, a faster pace and tightened-up editing might have eradicated the slow-motion underwater feel of the whole. Read full review

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TAPR

Jan 5, 2023

Achei lento até demais. A lentidão me descontentou do filme varias vezes. Na metade eu tinha ate esquecido que filme tava vendo, parece ter 3 filmes em 1. O final é muito bom. As qualidades técnicas são boas, destaque tbm para as atuações excelentes.

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Orukayu

Jan 22, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Horror-like thriller made in 2022. It has the subject of reckoning with a family's past traumas. The movie consists of 4 parts. Each of the 3 episodes introduces the siblings. The 4th part is the final part. The atmosphere and music for the thriller in the movie are fine. Although it distracts attention from time to time, it draws back and makes you wonder. I'm sure some people will like the movie very much, while others will not like it at all. In the comments I read after the movie, there are also those who praise the movie and give it 10 points, and those who evaluate it as bad and give it 1 point. The movie is slightly above average in my opinion.

I have a few questions in mind. Why is the gold stolen from these gypsies cursed, and even Eli, who needs money like crazy, doesn't buy that gold?

The other question is the detail of the child kidnapped by the gypsies. How did Eli, who was branded as a pedophile, know that the child was kidnapped? Why did he aim to save the child?

As for the finale, the audience only learns that the father died here. Since the father is dead, Eli blames the rape of his sister on his father. But even the fortune teller had seen it and told Eli, your mother is on fire because of you. Besides, he's still inclined towards little girls. Due to the incestuous relationship between the two children, the girl becomes pregnant. Learning this, the mother commits suicide. Because the father is already cruel to the children, the children also kill the father. The purest of them all cheats and drives away his wife. He also had a very fond childhood of his mother. He returns to his old home after being fired by his wife. If the house is bought by the oil company, it will be in the middle. But she also knows that her brothers will approve of the sale. She expects losing mother and father and being alone by throwing it on the other two. She knows old events too. When they come to the old house, they both kill them.

That's how I understood it.

There is too much sex and nudity in the movie.… Expand

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