Name: Dementer
Genre: Horror
Released: 2019-10-11T08:30:21-07:00
Rating: 79

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Movie Info

The film follows Katie, a young woman who flees a backwoods cult and takes a job at a care center for special needs adults in her determination to do some good with her life. But despite her best intentions, Katie can't escape the signs that "the devils" are coming for Stephanie, a woman with Down syndrome she cares for, who keeps getting sicker despite Katie's rituals to ward off evil spirits.

Genre:

horror
Original Language:

English
Director:

Chad Crawford Kinkle
Producer:

Chad Crawford Kinkle, Ashleigh Snead
Writer:

Chad Crawford Kinkle
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 2, 2021
Runtime:

1h 20m

Cast & Crew

Katie Groshong
Katie

Stephanie Kinkle
Stephanie

Brandy Edmiston
Brandy

Larry Fessenden
Larry

Eller Hall
Eller

Scott Hodges
Joey

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Critic Reviews for Dementer

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (4)

Chad Crawford Kinkle's micro-budget supernatural horror film "Dementer" is unsettling right from the start.

March 6, 2021 | Full Review…

Noel Murray
Los Angeles Times
Psychological horror that brings a cult survivor into the world of adults with special needs. Is her experience more real than theirs? And who do they need protecting from?

March 14, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Alix Turner
Ready Steady Cut
Chad Crawford Kinkle knows eerie, quirky ambiance (having Larry Fessenden acting helps) even if the occult odyssey doesn't quite marry up in the end. Groshong's performance goes a long way to sell the psychodrama...

March 12, 2021 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Tom Meek
Cambridge Day
Dementer sets out everything it's going to do in its first few minutes - and, to its detriment, it doesn't move forward from there.

March 10, 2021 | Full Review…

Keri O'Shea
Warped Perspective
A micro-budget horror pic that effectively in a surreal way tells about folks with strange beliefs in the backwoods of Tennessee.

March 10, 2021 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
There are some great visuals towards the end as Katie's hallucinations become more prominent, but Dementer is a confusing movie with little solutions to a half baked plot.

March 7, 2021 | Full Review…

Joel Fisher
Battle Royale With Cheese
Dementer comes up short in trying to merge the realities of what, throughout the film, remain disconnected worlds.

March 6, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cross
Starburst
Authenticity is certainly the main differentiator between Chad Crawford Kinkle's latest horror and others of the genre.

March 2, 2021 | Rating: 3 | Full Review…

Hope Madden
Columbus Underground
The production reinforces Kinkle's capabilities with limited coin and tales of weird southern threats, adding another original vision to his filmography.

February 25, 2021 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Brian Orndorf
Blu-ray.com
A near triumph of mood and tone over "story," and certainly creepy enough to recommend.

February 24, 2021 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Roger Moore
Movie Nation
In the absence of monstrous costumes or whizz-bang effects, the real star here is Kinkle's editing, as the past is made constantly, jarringly to encroach on the present..., informing the narrative trajectory in increasingly distressing ways.

February 14, 2021 | Full Review…

Anton Bitel
Projected Figures
Has its flaws but an incredibly engaging horror movie on many levels. The setting is one rarely used in the genre providing a refreshing feel to the familiar premise.

July 1, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Nathaniel Muir
AIPT