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The Tall Man
Directed by
Pascal Laugier
R
2012
1h 46m
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5.9
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When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
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Cast of The Tall Man
Jessica Biel
Julia Denning
Jodelle Ferland
Jenny
Stephen McHattie
Lt Dodd
Jakob Davies
David
William B. Davis
Sheriff Chestnut
Samantha Ferris
Tracy
Colleen Wheeler
Mrs. Johnson
Eve Harlow
Christine
Janet Wright
Trish
Ferne Downey
Lady / Mrs. Parker Leigh
John Mann
Douglas
Teach Grant
Steven
Garwin Sanford
Robert
Lucas Myers
Deputy Campbell
Pat Henman
Nurse at Police Infirmary
Katherine Ramdeen
Carol
Jodi Sadowsky
David's New Mother
Francisco de Borja De la Bella
FBI Agent (uncredited)
The Tall Man Ratings & Reviews
jackmeat
January 16, 2025
My quick rating - 5.7/10.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
Long on atmosphere and short on sense, "The Tall Man" becomes less gripping as it grows more ridiculous.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
"The Tall Man" spits out enough scares and twists to maintain our interest, but the film's psycho-sociological layer is almost as cheesy and unconvincing as its low-rent action scenes.
Way Too Indie
C.J. Prince
The Tall Man's twists and turns make for a fun time, but its attempts at provocation fail miserably. Laugier's ambitions are commendable, but they just don't succeed.
Film.com
Jordan Hoffman
I like to imagine the pitch meeting for "The Tall Man" as something like this: "It will be like 'Twin Peaks,' only absolutely terrible on every level."
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
"The Tall Man" opens like a ghost story and closes with its feet firmly in the real world. Until then, Pascal Laugier's chilly little thriller manhandles our sympathies and gladdens our eyes in almost equal measure.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
The movie itself draws on too long, and eventually goes past at least two potential endings and heads right into the ridiculous.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
It's novel, thought-provoking, and defiant of genre expectations.
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
There's plenty to like about it in hindsight once it's all laid out, but it isn't enough to lift this mystery-thriller out of the realm of the mundane.
Boxoffice Magazine
Nick Schager
Child abductions plague a rural Washington State town, but the more pressing affliction in Pascal Laugier's film is the absence of chills, logic and coherence
Slant Magazine
Richard Larson
Pascal Laugier's film illustrates the problem of class mobility with a dark, troubling premise that holds a harsh light up to our own assumptions and expectations.
SpookyAstronauts
Emma Wolfe
Trust me the payoff is completely worth it.
Village Voice
Chris Packham
Once you get through the flaming, Bowser's Castle-like gauntlet of the rest of the story's implausibilities, you end up in a different movie than the one on the creepy poster.
Hollywood Jesus
Ed Travis
The final reveals of the plot are so ludicrous and poorly told I am a little bit shocked. Biel does a fine job and the film looks like a real movie. It just has a nonsense script at its heart.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Half-baked and dismally executed.
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
A colossal waste of time built around tricking us with illogical plot twists, and a convoluted hard to follow narrative.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
Almost to the same degree as Laugier's Martyrs, it changes its game midway through and makes audiences radically shift sympathies as its plot develops.
FEARnet
Scott Weinberg
A sly, strange and subtly engaging horror story that will no doubt leave several viewers angry, confused, or arguing on twitter.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
What begins as an intriguing Stephen King riff devolves into a Lifetime Original, effectively burning off the potential of the complex misdirection.
Movies.com
John Gholson
Laugier's toiling with the seed of a good idea and interesting moral questions, but his own commitment to constructing the first half like a horror film (despite it not really being a horror film) leads to pacing issues as the film progresses.
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