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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Invincible
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Invincible
  • 1 h 23 m
Lace Crater

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 proble...

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Invincible
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Invincible
  • 1 h 23 m

Lace Crater

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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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 proble...

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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
57
29% Positive
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71% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Mixed
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83
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.
By Kevin Jagernauth FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Kenji Fujishima FULL REVIEW
58
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.
By Steve Greene FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Forager Films, Total Sweetheart, Visit Films
Release Date Jul 29, 2016
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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