81
Paste Magazine by Andrew Crump
It’s a really well-made genre movie, the product of a smart, obviously skilled filmmaker with a good sense of economy.
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What are critics saying?
70
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
The film is a blunt, brutally effective survival tale distinguished by the parallel suspense tracks of its non-chronological structure.
83
It’s a chilling, assured debut for writer/director Power, packed with promise and a startlingly mundane sort of violence which is all the more shocking for its realism.
60
Killing Ground isn't terrible. Far from it, in fact. It uses the non-linear narrative structure well to toy with the audience and create a sense of mystery around the duel arcs of the characters involved.
67
Killing Ground comes down to what you want to experience in a horror movie. Granted, all this elaborately constructed savagery is upsetting, so the film succeeds on that level. But without suspense to propel it forward, and without a compelling backstory to deepen the intrigue, upset is all we’ve got.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kimber Myers
Killing Ground is an effective indie creeper that unnerves the audience with its all-too-realistic violence.
70
Village Voice by Luke Y. Thompson
What the film doesn’t do, much to its credit, is make the killers into charismatically “cool” villains, à la Wolf Creek‘s Mick Taylor.
80
We Got This Covered by Matt Donato
What Backcountry did for campfire creature attacks Killing Ground does for murderous bushmen in the same setting.
63
Lean and relentless, patient and pitiless, “Killing Ground” is the sort of thriller that gives horror movies a good name.
58
Killing Ground’s twists might be effective, but stylistically speaking, it’s sub-Eli Roth.