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For pleasing pre-Halloween viewing, you could do a whole lot worse than The Dead Center. Just don't expect too many nightmares afterward. Oct 11, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
For pleasing pre-Halloween viewing, you could do a whole lot worse than The Dead Center. Just don't expect too many nightmares afterward.
Matt Fagerholm
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. Oct 11, 2019 | Full Review…
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.
Dennis Harvey
Makes hospitals seem even scarier than they already are. Oct 10, 2019 | Full Review…
Makes hospitals seem even scarier than they already are.
Frank Scheck
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. Oct 10, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Cary Darling
[An] effective low-key chiller... Oct 9, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
[An] effective low-key chiller...
Mike McCahill
[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. Oct 13, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
[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.
Alan Jones
"There's an unknowable boundary around the human experience, and if you pass beyond that boundary, you are quite simply fucked." Oct 10, 2019 | Full Review…
"There's an unknowable boundary around the human experience, and if you pass beyond that boundary, you are quite simply fucked."
Jason Shawhan
[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. Oct 10, 2019 | Full Review…
[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.
Sherilyn Connelly
The film is in tune with the need to remain lucid and empathetic while in the maw of human extremity. Oct 9, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The film is in tune with the need to remain lucid and empathetic while in the maw of human extremity.
Chuck Bowen
Whether because of its seemingly open-ended finale, the powerful performances delivered by the actors, the direction and screenplay, or whether due to the thematic material it chews upon, this film is hard to forget. Sep 25, 2019 | Full Review…
Whether because of its seemingly open-ended finale, the powerful performances delivered by the actors, the direction and screenplay, or whether due to the thematic material it chews upon, this film is hard to forget.
Sarah Musnicky
This is psychological horror at its best, when the eventual bloodletting pales in comparison to a Lovecraftian realization that one is well and truly doomed. May 27, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
This is psychological horror at its best, when the eventual bloodletting pales in comparison to a Lovecraftian realization that one is well and truly doomed.
Kevin A. Ranson
Though the slow build and genre-bending approach won't be for everyone, this is an intelligent piece of filmmaking that demonstrates an acute understanding of horrors present in the mundane world. Mar 7, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Though the slow build and genre-bending approach won't be for everyone, this is an intelligent piece of filmmaking that demonstrates an acute understanding of horrors present in the mundane world.
Jennie Kermode
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