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Matriarch

  • 2022
  • 18
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
4.6/10
3.5K
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Matriarch (2022)
Body HorrorSupernatural HorrorHorror

Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.

  • Director
    • Ben Steiner
  • Writer
    • Ben Steiner
  • Stars
    • Jemima Rooper
    • Kate Dickie
    • Sarah Paul
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.6/10
    3.5K
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    • Director
      • Ben Steiner
    • Writer
      • Ben Steiner
    • Stars
      • Jemima Rooper
      • Kate Dickie
      • Sarah Paul
    • 55User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Jemima Rooper
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    • Laura
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    • Celia
    Sarah Paul
    • Abi
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    • Leonard
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    Andrew Akins
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    5tooraredie

    Like my school reports - lots of potential, could do better.

    There's a really great core idea here and an overall solid story that with just a few minor tweaks could've made an absolute classic, but there's something hard to define that's not quite worked.

    I can't figure out if it's the characters, the acting, the editing, or what, but for some reason I couldn't connect and wasn't absorbed on an emotional level - there was no character I was rooting for, none I was rooting against. Someone died and it was acknowledged, but I didn't care.

    And if I'm not feeling something emotionally, it loses a major part of the battle for me. The brain parts of the people behind this got everything just about right, but the heart parts I think got left at home.
    7WarringtonOutbound

    Sinister and intriguing folk horror

    Very interesting tale of a binge-drinking, cocaine-snorting city type on the verge of a breakdown, visiting her rural-dwelling mother for a very difficult reunion. There's the spectre of a mysteriously deceased father, mentions of the Olde Ways, and the obligatory not-as-harmless-as-they-seem villagers. The first and third acts could be from completely different films, yet it just about works, as both mother/daughter drama and countryside weirdness are dark and intriguing.

    Matriarch also largely avoids sudden shocks for the slowly emerging realisation of terror, whilst mixing in unsettling visuals and details which only become clear later on. The central performances are great; Jemima Rooper bravely makes her character spiteful and unlikeable yet still somehow sympathetic, whilst Kate Dickie as her mum is subtly yet unmistakably wrong from the outset, and it just escalates from there. Wonderfully bleak scenery as well; frosty churchyards and desolate roads that don't seem to lead to anywhere.
    5Howling_at_the_Moon_Reviews

    Family trauma reunion with Mummy

    I thought this movie started out decently, but fell apart as things started to unfold, by the end leaving you questioning what you just watched.

    It almost felt like the writers/ people Involved/ maybe even the actors were confused on what exactly this plot was. It was very successfully atmospheric and kept you engaged until the third act where things kind of went off the rails. It was all... kind of explained, yet still even after I was left asking why. I think the plot/script needed another couple once overs to really iron it out and make sure it made sense and was cohesive. Regardless, I thought the mother and daughter both did a solid job as far as acting goes with this and there was still some solid creep factor.

    I felt this one had a lot more potential that it didn't quite tap into but was not overwhelmingly unsuccessful. Would recommend but not fervently.
    6sjarja

    good enough

    To get that out of the way .. i rate this movie to be a bit above average.

    If i wanted to describe a feeling in one word .. i would probably go with : uncomfortable

    A bit like a Lars von Trier movie, but only half way.

    Acting is good - although not very nuanced. Cinematography is sometimes good .. but not stellar - and characters act in a very artificial way .. only to support the plot, not in any way realistic (on the basis of the supernatural that is going on)

    The CGI was poor ... i mean, Playstation 2 cutscene poor. It was kind of rare .. and i wonder why the movie did not use practical effects .. those would not have been too hard .. and may not have broken immersion as much as those really terrible CGI scenes.

    All in all, it was worth watching - for me. But other than that ... a fairly forgettable movie without much depth or meaning (well, unless you are into rural folklore of that region or so .. maybe than there is more to get from it)
    Denis89

    Don't know what i watched, but I could not look away

    Not a movie for everybody or indeed anybody but if you want something different then it is worth a watch.. Like it or not, it's admirable that the movie is totally weird and refuses to follow any formula but it's own. It does not even care about alienating people, it is that daring.

    During the short run-time it takes all sorts of twists and turns and you never know what will happen. It might at the end of the day try to much and gets lost in it's own story. But Kate Dickie is as usually great in another eccentric unhinged lady role. Going all in, she knows exactly what kind of movie it is....

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      The film's original title was "Wormeater", but was changed to "Matriarch" after network executives felt it would put off the female audience.

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    • Release date
      • October 21, 2022 (France)
    • Country of origin
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Matriarcado
    • Filming locations
      • Bristol, England, UK(on location)
    • Production companies
      • 20th Digital Studio
      • Sharp House
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