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2019
R
1091 Pictures
1 h 38 m

2019
R
1091 Pictures
1 h 38 m

Summary Deep in Appalachia, Pastor Lemuel Childs (Walton Goggins) presides over an isolated community of serpent handlers, an obscure sect of Pentecostals who willingly take up venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. As his devoted daughter, Mara (Alice Englert) prepares for her wedding day, under the watchful eye of Hope Slaughter (Acad...

Directed By: Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage

Written By: Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage

2019
R
1091 Pictures
1 h 38 m

2019
R
1091 Pictures
1 h 38 m

Them That Follow

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews

57

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings

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Summary Deep in Appalachia, Pastor Lemuel Childs (Walton Goggins) presides over an isolated community of serpent handlers, an obscure sect of Pentecostals who willingly take up venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. As his devoted daughter, Mara (Alice Englert) prepares for her wedding day, under the watchful eye of Hope Slaughter (Acad...

Directed By: Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage

Written By: Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews

52% Positive
12 Reviews

48% Mixed
11 Reviews

0% Negative
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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews

52% Positive
12 Reviews

48% Mixed
11 Reviews

0% Negative
0 Reviews

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Mixed Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times

Aug 15, 2019

Them That Follow is a harrowing and chilling deep dive into an isolated community in the Appalachian mountains.

By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW

Aug 2, 2019

The acting and filmmaking are so much more imaginative than the script (which also falls into the rookie trap of mistaking a lack of humor for seriousness) that in the end, this feels like a dry run for something deeper and more daring.

By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW

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User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings

36% Positive
5 Ratings

43% Mixed
6 Ratings

21% Negative
3 Ratings

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User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings

36% Positive
5 Ratings

43% Mixed
6 Ratings

21% Negative
3 Ratings

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Jan 11, 2021

Intense, somber, visceral and entertaining. Them That Follow is an interesting film that follows life centered around a group of backwoods religious zealots

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Aug 13, 2019

A harrowing film that was truly an American rural horror story. For me the riveting suspense came from the way the younger characters reacted to and were trapped in their stultifying environment, complete with its warped live-poisonous-snake-centered religion, because their elders continued to believe that venomous snake bites provided a “cleansing.” But bad things kept happening – and tragically seemed destined to continue except for those with the courage to flee their fatally poisonous traditional beliefs.

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Los Angeles Times

Aug 1, 2019

A film as atmospheric as its title, Them That Follow is an ambitious and impressive independent production, where the creation of mood and place is so convincing it enables us to buy into a richly melodramatic plot about a taboo romance.

By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW

Aug 7, 2019

The snake stuff is riveting — how could it not be? But Poulton and Madison Savage’s treatment of the rural community tilts toward the anthropological: A few corny bits of dialogue can make the parishioners feel like types instead of characters.

Washington Post

Aug 7, 2019

Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever and Jim Gaffigan round out a talented yet crowded ensemble cast, which has so many principal characters — all flawed in a different way — that the filmmakers are unable at times to devote the attention that each one deserves.

Jun 20, 2019

While the film tries to be a shocking window into another world, it plays more like an agog piece of tourism.

By David Sims FULL REVIEW

Feb 2, 2019

It’s competently made but utterly vacant, a forgettable indie fading fast.

By Benjamin Lee FULL REVIEW

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Feb 5, 2021

The monotony of its tone and rhythm are too troublesome, and frankly the film is never able to cope with it. The premise is of course quite intriguing but despite the potential, it struggles too much to find a constant cadence, and mostly a relevant dramatic intensity. The result is poor and discouraging.

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Oct 14, 2021

(Mauro Lanari) It is cowardly to set the conflict between faith and religion, or rather the overlap between the limits of both, in the wild lands of a rural community in Appalachia. This type of problem still exists today, in 2021, in our supposedly highly evolved civilization. Waiting for some more courageous director who dares to recover the broken thread of the best French filmmakers of the 2nd post-war period.

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Production Company Amasia Entertainment, G-BASE

Release Date Aug 2, 2019

Duration 1 h 38 m

Rating R

Genres

Tagline We All Have Our Sins

Website https://www.facebook.com/ThemThatFollow/

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Awards

Newport Beach Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Sundance Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

Cleveland International Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

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