Lace Crater

Name: Lace Crater
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Released: July 29, 2016
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 57

2016

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Invincible Pictures | Release Date: July 29, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: All Ruth (Lindsay Burdge) wanted was to get away for the weekend. Escaping to the Hamptons with friends after a bad breakup, she finds an unexpected connection with Michael (Peter Vack), a stranger who shows up in her room one boozy night. They have great chemistry, and she finds herself inexplicably drawn to him. There’s only one problem:All Ruth (Lindsay Burdge) wanted was to get away for the weekend. Escaping to the Hamptons with friends after a bad breakup, she finds an unexpected connection with Michael (Peter Vack), a stranger who shows up in her room one boozy night. They have great chemistry, and she finds herself inexplicably drawn to him. There’s only one problem: Michael’s a ghost, and a one night stand with him leaves Ruth with aftereffects that can only be described as supernatural. As she suffers through mucous-laden night sweats, glitchy hallucinations, and the occasional tar-black ooze, her friends become too disgusted to support her. Ruth must figure out for herself if she can reintegrate into society - or if she even wants to.… Expand

Director: Harrison Atkins

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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The Playlist Kevin Jagernauth

Jul 31, 2016

The trick the director pulls off is that “Lace Crater” weaves a comedic touch throughout the film, keeps the audience compellingly off balance when it pitches toward horror, and puts together a picture that slyly has much more going on beneath its laid back surface. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Aug 4, 2016

Lace Crater is a thoroughly modern ghost story that creeps into camp, testing the audience as it wavers between terrifying and deadpan funny. Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

Jul 28, 2016

Slight though it may be, Lace Crater's mix of Andrew Bujalski–style naturalism and Roman Polanski–style body horror is at least off-kilter enough to keep one absorbed throughout. Read full review

IndieWire Steve Greene

Aug 2, 2016

It’s a story that has its share of unnerving sequences, but like its pivotal character, it feels stuck between two worlds. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Jul 28, 2016

First-time director Harrison Atkins never quite finds his own distinct voice. He dabbles in horror and deadpan comedy, experiments in discordant jags on the soundtrack, and suggests a more fluid boundary between the living and the dead, but the film remains stubbornly hazy and obscure in its intentions. Read full review

John DeFore

Jul 28, 2016

What at first looks like a mumblecore comedy with a supernatural twist turns into something darker, and many viewers will not feel like going along for the detour into psychological horror. Read full review

Andy Webster

Jul 28, 2016

Ms. Burdge — all quicksilver emotion and exposed nerve endings — is an endlessly watchable focal point. Her character’s vulnerability, uncertainty and growing self-acceptance lend the movie a necessary gravity. Read full review

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