Playback

Playback (2011)

  • 82% of users liked it
    (1,867 ratings)

While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir. -- (C) Magnolia

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Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Horror
In Theaters
Mar 9, 2012 Limited
Magnolia Releasing

Critic Reviews

  • Annlee Ellingson, Paste Magazine

    Playback takes a potentially intriguing concept and punctuates it with extreme gore rather than thrilling suspense.

  • Scott Weinberg, FEARnet

    On the bright side, the movie gets less irritating with each passing murder.

  • Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

    Playback posits cinema as a conduit for Satanic evil, but has nothing to say about the act of watching, except that its uniform horridness functions as an unintentional commentary on enduring pitiful horror-movie conventions.

  • Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

    Nickels misses the mark with this design of voyeurism and possession, unable to launch his idea with an inspiring sense of madness or even basic boogeyman clarity.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • MisterYoda ?


    Terrible Movie, i didn't even finish it

  • The Movie W


    This awful mid budget horror feels like the worst ever episode of the "X-Files", a dated plot about a teen who gains evil powers by viewing some found footage. There are two movies within the movie but the quality is so bad overall that it's hard to distinguish any of… More

  • Todd S


    Playback is a B-Horror film that in a sense is nothing more than a new take on the Amityville Horror. Instead of a demon possessing a house, the demon in this film, keeps his spirit alive on videotape, and when someone sees the tape, they become the next possessed killer. The story… More

  • Panta O


    This movie is also known as Playback: Bloodline and I assume that with a name like that is just a start of a franchise... Yes, it was supposed to be a thriller/horror movie starring Toby Hemingway but there was not too much of the good stuff from both genres! The story of a school… More

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