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  • 2015
  • Uncork'd Entertainment
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2015
  • Uncork'd Entertainment
  • 1 h 21 m

Summary Dr. Victor Reed has just achieved a huge scientific breakthrough by successfully cloning the first human being, an adorable baby girl named Elizabeth. This immediately becomes a media spectacle and ignites a firestorm of debate concerning the moral and religious implications of such a discovery. Soon, Dr. Reed and his family lose all sen...

Directed By: Billy Senese

Written By: Billy Senese

  • 2015
  • Uncork'd Entertainment
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2015
  • Uncork'd Entertainment
  • 1 h 21 m

Closer to God

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Dr. Victor Reed has just achieved a huge scientific breakthrough by successfully cloning the first human being, an adorable baby girl named Elizabeth. This immediately becomes a media spectacle and ignites a firestorm of debate concerning the moral and religious implications of such a discovery. Soon, Dr. Reed and his family lose all sen...

Directed By: Billy Senese

Written By: Billy Senese

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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63% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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80
Jul 2, 2015
With admirable economy, writer-director Billy Senese has crafted an eerie piece that's as much an effective cautionary tale as it is a stirring film of ideas — and ideals.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 2, 2015
Don’t expect profundities on the ethics of cloning. And don’t expect Oscar-worthy acting. Senese’s accomplishment — and it’s done with a certain restraint — is to replicate the look and feel of ’70s horror films, which had become more assaultive on audience sensibilities than their predecessors, breaking taboos and borrowing techniques from exploitation films.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 2, 2015
Students of sound design and horror-movie scores should see - or hear - Closer to God, which elicits more creepy scares than its transparent plot warrants, thanks to an unsettling audio mix and pulsing, percolating music from Thomas Nöla.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 2, 2015
The result is ultimately admirable more for what it resists — the usual sci-fi horror exploitation cliches — than for the watchable yet somewhat underwhelming impact of a narrative that feels perhaps a little too reined-in for its own good.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 2, 2015
Having painted Victor as a transgressive offender, Mr. Senese backpedals furiously with a coda asserting the potential rewards of genetic manipulation. It isn’t convincing.
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 29, 2015
The end result suggests Re-Animator as told through an airless CNN report.
By Wes Greene FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 2, 2015
The writer/director deserves credit for his comparatively low-key approach to the potentially exploitative material, but much like the infant baby at its center, the film seems artificially cobbled-together.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW

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Production Company LC Pictures
Release Date Jul 3, 2015
Duration 1 h 21 m
Genres
Tagline Scientific breakthrough unimaginable nightmare.
Website https://www.facebook.com/closertogodfilm
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Awards

Fantasia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Fantasporto
• 1 Nomination
Molins Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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