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Movie Info

A psychiatrist's sanity is pushed to the edge when a patient with amnesia insists he has died and has come back from the other side with something terrible.

Genre:

mystery & thriller
Original Language:

English
Director:

Billy Senese
Producer:

Shane Carruth, Denis Deck, Jonathan Rogers, Billy Senese
Writer:

Billy Senese
Release Date (Theaters):

Oct 11, 2019 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 22, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA):

$8.3K
Runtime:

1h 33m
Production Co:

Movie City Films, Sequitur Cinema

Cast & Crew

Poorna Jagannathan
Sarah Grey

Jeremy Child
John Doe

Bill Feehely
Edward Graham

Rachel Agee
Anne

J. Thomas Bailey
Travis

Bridget Berger
Nurse Franklin

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Critic Reviews for The Dead Center

All Critics (18) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (1)

For pleasing pre-Halloween viewing, you could do a whole lot worse than The Dead Center. Just don't expect too many nightmares afterward.

October 11, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Matt Fagerholm
RogerEbert.com
There's a lot of excellent atmospherics here that are more unsettling than the actual violence, which in turn is all the more effective for largely being kept just off-screen.

October 11, 2019 | Full Review…

Dennis Harvey
Variety
Makes hospitals seem even scarier than they already are.

October 10, 2019 | Full Review…

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
Director/writer Billy Senese didn't have a ton of money to work with but "The Dead Center" wisely eschews gore and special effects in favor of setting a dark, malevolent mood.

October 10, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Cary Darling
Houston Chronicle
The film is in tune with the need to remain lucid and empathetic while in the maw of human extremity.

October 9, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Chuck Bowen
Slant Magazine
[An] effective low-key chiller...

October 9, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Mike McCahill
Guardian
This is a horror film - in the sense of horrific - through and through, a grim mystery which grows ever and ever nastier.

July 23, 2020 | Full Review…

Keri O'Shea
Warped Perspective
As riveting as it is fresh it's a slow and dreadful burn that, despite its detrimentally short run-time, manages to be one of the more intriguing, effective indie thrillers as of recent memory.

December 28, 2019 | Full Review…

Eve Sullivan
Film Inquiry
Mediocrely entertaining and repetitive in the procedures, The Dead Center lacks guts and never coheres into something special.

November 22, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Filipe Freitas
Always Good Movies
[Billy Senese's] second feature feels exceptionally authentic - no trace of medical soap operatics here - and is well played by a roster of newcomers, allowing it to build to a genuinely impressive clinical crescendo.

October 14, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Alan Jones
Radio Times
"There's an unknowable boundary around the human experience, and if you pass beyond that boundary, you are quite simply fucked."

October 10, 2019 | Full Review…

Jason Shawhan
Nashville Scene
[Billy] Senese... makes great use of the sound design, and glitchy visuals which are unnerving without resorting to cheap jump scares. But most importantly, The Dead Center gives us more [Shane] Carruth, and he brings the film to life.

October 10, 2019 | Full Review…

Sherilyn Connelly
SF Weekly