Name: The Cleansing Hour
Genre: Horror
Released: 2019-07-30T08:50:57-07:00
Rating: 72

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Movie Info

Max and Drew run a popular webcast that streams "live exorcisms" watched by millions across the globe. In reality, the exorcisms are just elaborately staged hoaxes performed by paid actors. But their fortunes take a turn when one of the actors becomes possessed by an actual demon and takes the crew hostage. In front of a rapidly growing audience, the demon subjects the crew to a series of violent challenges, threatening to expose the dark secrets they've been hiding from each other unless they come clean and reveal they're impostors before the show is over.

Genre:

horror
Original Language:

English
Director:

Damien LeVeck
Producer:

Shirit Bradley, Dan Clifton, Damien LeVeck, Natalie LeVeck
Writer:

Damien LeVeck, Aaron Horwitz
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 19, 2021
Runtime:

1h 34m
Production Co:

Skubalon

Cast & Crew

Kyle Gallner
Drew

Ryan Guzman
Max

Joanna David
Schoolmarm

Emma Holzer
Riley

Tara Karsian
Voice of Possessed Lane

Alix Angelis
Lane

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TV Premiere Dates 2020

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Critic Reviews for The Cleansing Hour

All Critics (25) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (7)

A film that is fun, frightening, and smugly surprising, especially as it strides smoothly into a final beat that will leave you drop-jawed.

October 12, 2020 | Full Review…

Kristy Puchko
Pajiba
A well-conceived, well-executed horror movie... a worthy entry in both the exorcism and Internet subgenres.

February 1, 2021 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Abbie Bernstein
Assignment X
The Cleansing Hour leafs through the trope book with a demonically straight face

January 29, 2021 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Jeffrey Zhang
Strange Harbors
Gory exorcism tale has graphic violence, strong language.

January 26, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

JK Sooja
Common Sense Media
Since demons don't necessarily stand out in Hell, some of them crave the spotlight just as much as us insecure humans do.

January 20, 2021 | Rating: 3.0 | Full Review…

Drew Tinnin
Dread Central
The Cleansing Hour isn't awful, but if you were asked to come up with a genuinely positive thing to say about it, even the most forgiving of souls will find themselves coming up short.

January 4, 2021 | Full Review…

Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com
...a lamentable misfire that probably, one would assume, worked much better as a 19 minute short.

November 21, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
Most horror fans have seen more than enough possession stories by now, so it's a good thing this quick and creative chiller has a few new wrinkles to throw our way.

November 11, 2020 | Full Review…

Scott Weinberg
Thrillist
The social media angle is instantly dated and yet the film still feels tediously beholden to generic tropes.

November 3, 2020 | Rating: C- | Full Review…

Andrew Wyatt
The Lens
'The Cleansing Hour' exorcises an overdone horror subgenre of its staleness in an exceptionally entertaining spectacle of profiteering prophets and merciless hoofed tormentors.

October 26, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Matt Donato
WhatToWatch
...about as subtle as a brick...if you let the film tempt you, then you're in for a good time.

October 10, 2020 | Rating: 14/20 | Full Review…

John Noonan
FILMINK (Australia)
Had Horwitz and LeVeck kept things on a modest scale, confining the action to the single set where the show is produced, they might have had a classic, horrific chamber piece on their hands. Too bad the third act is filled with unnecessary tangents.

October 9, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4.0 | Full Review…

Charles Koplinski
Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam