Dreamcatcher

critic Reviews

, 40% Rotten Tomatometer Score
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    Drew TinninDread Central
    If you can make it past the first act it's almost worth staying for the afterparty...Dreamcatcher doesn't exactly add anything new to the post-slasher movie but it does have a pulsating soundtrack and a surprisingly strong wrap up.
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    Matt DonatoThe Gist
    It's a struggle to parse emblematic and important trauma infliction themes from an execution that gets lost in dizzying genre-hybrid ambitions that become a numbing trance.
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    Emilie BlackCinema Crazed
    ...the kind of slasher that is not fully realized in terms of the usual rules and tropes, but it also works as a different type slasher and as a pretty film to entertain for a while.
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    Alex SavelievFilm Threat
    You'll be too busy being annoyed at the headache-inducing incomprehensibility of it all to be frightened.
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    Jeffrey M. AndersonCommon Sense Media
    Shallow and all surface, this not-scary, nonsensical, and far too long "horror" movie offers nothing new and seems to have been made by people whose chief interest was posing for the camera.
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    Nathaniel MuirAIPT
    The story ends up collapses under its own weight. The premise is a fine one and the setting is unique, but nothing comes together like it should.
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    Ian Thomas Maloneianthomasmalone.com
    While Dreamcatcher drags a bit in the second half, it's interesting to watch a stylistically-talented director grapple with his film's moral quandaries in real-time.
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    Joe LipsettQueer.Horror.Movies.
    A misguided attempt to fuse disparate genres together...the longer the film plays, the more it devolves into a confused, muddled mess of bad plotting, unlikeable characters and ridiculous dialogue.
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    Leigh MonsonWhat To Watch
    'Dreamcatcher' is a solid attempt to introduce a new sound to the world of horror, but the track ends up coming out as overproduced noise.
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    Jacob WalkerStarburst
    With a little more focus and some trimming of the fat, Dreamcatcher could have been truly great rather than decent.
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