Penny Lane Is Dead

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Penny Lane Is Dead

2025

1h 30m

Comedy

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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17 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Set in 1986, during a scorching Aussie summer, three best friends' celebration at a beach house turns into a blood-soaked fight for survival when a prank goes horribly wrong.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

1d

3/4

While you should know going in what Penny Lane is Dead is going to show you, I say stick with this one, no matter how uncomfortable the experience of watching may prove to be.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

4d

3/5

The bits where Wright-Mendelsohn and Fereday, both of them great, slug it out and hurl insults at each other are the best parts of the film, full of Catfight-style grudge-match malice.

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Jake Wilson

Sydney Morning Herald

Jul 27

3/5

In spirit, this is a film of the present rather than the past.

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Bee Delores

B-Sides & Badlands

10h

5/5

When Penny Lane is Dead inevitably takes that hard left turn into fatalistic territory, Russell makes damn sure the audience feels every ounce of disgust and rage, throbbing like a headache after a weekend bender.

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Chuck Bowen

Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

1d

Writer-director Mia Kate Russell maintains a simmering sense of menace as recent high school graduates, all girls, are circled by criminals in a remote cabin.

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Brett Arnold

Yahoo.com

1d

The movie is just as sickened by the proceedings as you are.

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Stoner J

@Stoner 2h

Awesome, bloody thrill ride horror flick. It’s the Australian Last House on the Left, better though.

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C B

@RT03025588 8h

Every one of the characters is disgusting and ugly-both inside and out. And the actresses must be at least 30 to 35 years old and they are playing teenagers...Ridiculous!

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thomas B

@rotten.Thomas 14h

I can’t understand why this got such great reviews. Even in the realm of B-movies this was just not fun and made no sense. There is one redeeming character with a stuffed animal, one interesting moment with a kitchen utensil, but overall it’s just a bunch of poorly acted histrionic characters with a callous disregard for everything.

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nilufer E

@Nilicim 1d

It was fine, I guess. I can see why people liked it, but it didn't really leave much of an impression on me. I also wasn't particularly into the cast, which probably didn't help.

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Dr D

@RT49751068 1d

Some good gory scenes and one part at the gas station I had to go back and watch again!! Acting was superb and is a fun watch.

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Jenny V

@JennyVP 1d

Be good if movie summaries could go ahead and tell folks about the sexual violence in movies because a lot of people just would keep scrolling. Wasted time watching part of this just to shut it off.

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Synopsis

Set in 1986, during a scorching Aussie summer, three best friends' celebration at a beach house turns into a blood-soaked fight for survival when a prank goes horribly wrong.

Director: Mia'Kate Russell
Producer: Julie Ryan, Ari Harrison, André Lima, Carly Maple
Screenwriter: Mia'Kate Russell
Distributor: Shudder
Production Co: Sanctuary Pictures, Buffalo Media
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 28, 2026
Runtime: 1h 30m

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