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  • 2018
  • Cranked Up Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2018
  • Cranked Up Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Summary Melanie Thomas is an American artist whose latest show recounts the infamous Irish urban legend of Father Alistair Burke, who painted a portrait of 8-year-old Siobhan Callahan in 1986. Days later, Siobhan went missing on the very morning that her figure miraculously vanished from the painting as well. Though absolved of any wrongdoing, B...

Directed By: Michael Tully

  • 2018
  • Cranked Up Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2018
  • Cranked Up Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Don't Leave Home

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Melanie Thomas is an American artist whose latest show recounts the infamous Irish urban legend of Father Alistair Burke, who painted a portrait of 8-year-old Siobhan Callahan in 1986. Days later, Siobhan went missing on the very morning that her figure miraculously vanished from the painting as well. Though absolved of any wrongdoing, B...

Directed By: Michael Tully

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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30% Mixed
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83
Mar 16, 2018
The closing minutes are a completely original sort of survival drama, one that defies precise explanation even as it delivers significant payoff.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 13, 2018
Slow, deliberate and often unexpectedly funny, Michael Tully’s (Ping Pong Summer) contribution to the ever-growing Irish horror catalogue is refreshingly original even if it lacks the jump scare pay off to its heavily-signposted creepiness.
By Fionnuala Halligan FULL REVIEW

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70
Mar 16, 2018
While this twisty tale of an "evil miracle" connected to a self-exiled former priest ultimately withholds too much to resolve all of its enigmas, the atmospheric mood and persuasive performances keep you watching.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
67
Mar 16, 2018
Tthe best elements of Don’t Leave Home – its foreboding tone, its photography, and Roddy Sr.’s soulful, remorseful performance as Burke – override its head-scratching missteps.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
65
Sep 14, 2018
It’s easy to forgive its melodramatic excesses, especially if you happen to be partial to the genre. And things do pick up as the story unfolds.
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60
Sep 13, 2018
Don’t Leave Home is a frustratingly befuddled movie that’s nevertheless fascinating.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 13, 2018
The result is a diverting-to-a-point curio whose nice atmospherics and good performances ultimately don’t add up to quite enough to satisfy the constructs of horror, allegory, satire — or anything else.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Dialectic, DreamAlliance Entertainment, Indie Entertainment, Orama Filmworks, Salem Street Entertainment
Release Date Sep 14, 2018
Duration 1 h 26 m
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Tagline An Irish Urban Legend
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Oak Cliff Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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