Antlers

Name: Antlers
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy
Released: October 29, 2021
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Amy Madigan, Andy Thompson, Arlo Hajdu, Cody Davis, Graham Greene

2021

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20th Century Fox Argentina | Release Date: October 29, 2021 | R

Starring: Amy Madigan, Andy Thompson, Arlo Hajdu, Cody Davis, Graham Greene, Jeremy T. Thomas, Jesse Plemons, Keri Russell, Lyla Marlow, Rory Cochrane, Sawyer Jones, Scott Haze

Summary: A small-town Oregon teacher (Keri Russell) and her brother (Jesse Plemons), the local sheriff, become entwined with a young student (Jeremy T. Thomas) harboring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences.

Director: Scott Cooper

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 99 min

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Thom Ernst

Oct 28, 2021

Visually, Antlers is stunning as a portrait of a town dying. And there are plenty of gruesome, hide-behind-your-eyes scenes to satisfy most genre fans. But it's Cooper's commitment to his characters and the performance of the film's two youngest leads that make Antlers more than just a movie about killer—well, you'll have to see for yourself. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Oct 12, 2021

What makes suggestion-driven Antlers so disturbing isn’t the movie’s tension- and dread-building mechanics so much as the way the filmmaker burrows into the minds of his two main characters. Read full review

Robert Morast

Oct 12, 2021

Antlers is a very effective, chilling film. It doesn’t have the franchise flash of Halloween Kills or the bizarro artifice of Lamb, but there’s authenticity to this movie that’s so effective and, at times, emotionally overwhelming Read full review

Mae Abdulbaki

Oct 29, 2021

Despite being all over the place, Antlers can be gripping and potently disconcerting, with good character development making up for its pitfalls. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 28, 2021

Antlers left me with the feeling of being the work of a top drawer craftsman who never quite reconciles himself to the job, who forgets the “nature’s revenge” theme and leaves the child abuse subtext under-explored, never builds suspense or any sense of rising panic in the town, the school or the sheriff’s department, and yet still manages to deliver a gruesomely good looking film despite all that. Read full review

Brianna Zigler

Nov 1, 2021

Antlers is a film that, not unlike most of its ilk, wants to be an overstuffed analogy for hot-button issues first, and a horror film second. Unfortunately, it can’t seem to get either right. Read full review

The Playlist Carlos Aguilar

Oct 12, 2021

Chunks of childhood trauma, a dash of the opioid crisis, a few drops of environmental distress, and Native American mythology swim together in a foggy concoction of a plot without meaningfully merging. Read full review

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GinaK

Nov 2, 2021

I have been a horror film buff from childhood, and consider this film a classic from beginning to end, although perhaps not a personal favorite (time will tell). The young boy caught up in all the horror was completely believable, and a child of his age is next to impossible to cast as theI have been a horror film buff from childhood, and consider this film a classic from beginning to end, although perhaps not a personal favorite (time will tell). The young boy caught up in all the horror was completely believable, and a child of his age is next to impossible to cast as the focus of a horror film. The terror was very natural and not full of cleverness, so it always seemed genuine. The rest of the cast was convincingly rural and naive, and so their personal reactions also seemed genuine. And the gore was never gratuitous, but an integral part of the film.… Expand

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Ihoags

Oct 29, 2021

Movie really does a great job in every aspect never really feels like it’s lacking and tackles a very touchy subject of abuse rather than just focusing on the wendigo story itself and the cinematography along with cast do a spectacular job as well !

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Caribou_goo

Oct 29, 2021

First ~2/3 of the movie had a great unsettling atmosphere, dark symbolism, and intrigue going for it. The last act left little surprises and it just felt unsatisfying when characters act incorrectly to circumstances/previous responses. How the main protagonists past ties into the theme endsFirst ~2/3 of the movie had a great unsettling atmosphere, dark symbolism, and intrigue going for it. The last act left little surprises and it just felt unsatisfying when characters act incorrectly to circumstances/previous responses. How the main protagonists past ties into the theme ends up just being used to justify the unlikelihood of how they clumsily resolve the plot. The dark themes the movie wants to explore and the simplicity of summarizing the events are at odds with each other.

Great monster design but if you come mainly for that you might be disappointed with it's lack of appearances. Technically well executed but did very little to create true moments of horror, anxiety, or disgust. Best you get is some unease, maybe a jump scare, and the knowledge that they addressed a dark subject without really exploring it… Expand

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JLau

May 22, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Two guys running a meth lab in an abandoned mine get attacked by something, killing one and turning the other into some sort of feral creature that his son locks in a room and feeds raw meat before his teacher starts to worry about him.… Expand

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ozymandias79

Dec 14, 2021

It's a paint-by-numbers horror movie with good acting and a jump scare that's more like a **** yourself scare. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it!

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FelipePedro07

Aug 31, 2022

Meh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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BigEggsKitchen

Oct 30, 2021

Biggest disappointment of the year and one of the worst films of 2021. Acting is atrocious

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