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Brightwood
Directed by
Dane Elcar
2023
84m
Horror
,
Science Fiction
,
Thriller
5.5
94%
63%
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A couple find themselves trapped while on a run around a pond.
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Cast of Brightwood
Dana Berger
Jen
Max Woertendyke
Dan
Brightwood Reviews
AIPT
Nathaniel Muir
Brightwood can be a little too on the nose about what it has to say about a failing marriage, but by the time it leans into the horror aspects, anyone watching will be genuinely worried for the two.
Variety
J. Kim Murphy
Though his feature debut is billed as a genre high-wire act, Elcar simply isn't enough of an acrobat to put on a show.
Sunshine State Cineplex
Alan French
With a slick script, Brightwood becomes an alluring depiction of relationships teetering on the edge.
Third Coast Review
Steven Prokopy
Above all other things, the film made me desperate to see what familiar concepts Dane Elcar will deconstruct for us moving forward. Seek this one out.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Berger and Woertendyke make their characters engaging and appropriately irritating.
Rue Morgue Magazine
Michael Gingold
A consistently involving example of what an astute filmmaker can do with very limited resources but a well-judged script and a pair of strong performances.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
A well-crafted baroque puzzle box.
AWFJ.org
Nadine Whitney
Brightwood is a creepy indie horror that worms its way into the senses.
Crooked Marquee
Josh Bell
With just two actors, a nature trail, and a "No Swimming" sign, writer-director Dane Elcar creates an immersive, ingenious sci-fi world.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Thriller about feeling trapped in a marriage.
Screen Zealots
Louisa Moore
The thematically rich and inventive premise starts off as something that feels wacky and fun, but the shock comes when the film transforms into a dark, disturbing, bloody nightmare.
In Review Online
Daniel Gorman
Brightwood is an awful lot of fun, suitably destined for some measure of cult status - don't be surprised if you start seeing people online attempting to diagram the film's various timelines.
The Screening Room Podcast
Hope Madden
This timeloop thriller is inventive, imaginative and bloody.
North Shore Movies
Daniel M. Kimmel
It's at that point you may realize that writer/director Dane Elcar is telling two stories at once. One is the science fiction/horror tale where the local park seems to have turned into a Möbius strip. The other story is a parable about relationships.
ScullyVision
Dan Scully
Successful in establishing a strong arc for both of our main characters, while also maximizing the application of the core concept.
MovieReelist.com
MontiLee Stormer
There doesn't need to be an extensive backstory with flashbacks and hazy montages to understand a crumbling relationship, and Dana Berger and Max Woertendyke convey brilliantly through expressions and body language what words would ruin.
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
Works as both a horror story and an exploration of an unhappy marriage.
Hey, Have You Seen ...?
Jared Mobarak
[Elcar pivots to horror] to prove the metaphorical circles of carnage we put ourselves through don't always have an exit ramp. Whether voluntarily or not, we become comfortable in the chaos.
Morbidly Beautiful
Stephanie Malone
It paves new ground with a clever, intelligent allegory that's surprising at every turn. At times darkly humorous, harrowing, and heartbreaking, it mines the depths of real and relatable horror to put an original spin on the familiar time loop trope.
Bloody Disgusting
Matt Donato
On a conceptual level, Brightwood is an exciting analysis of romantic expectations that breaks rules and condemns pleasureless norms ... in execution, Brightwood solves its own puzzles too early and reveals its hand too often.
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