70
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
With a scare factor far greater than its modest dimensions initially seem to promise, The Canal is a polished indie psycho-thriller full of macabre twists and nerve-snapping tension.
The Canal
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- Ireland,
- United Kingdom
- 2014
- · 93m
Director
Ivan Kavanagh
Cast
Rupert Evans,
Antonia Campbell-Hughes,
Hannah Hoekstra,
Steve Oram,
Kelly Byrne,
Serena Brabazon
Genre
Horror,
Mystery,
Thriller
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy... or so he believes. When a looming secret imperils their marriage at the same time as an old 16mm film reel reveals their house to be the site of a horrific murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself.
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70
The Dissolve
A good-looking, sometimes completely terrifying haunted-house story.
70
Village Voice by Simon Abrams
Piers McGrail's nuanced, moody cinematography brings out the best in writer-director Ivan Kavanagh's over-mannered but effectively creepy ghost story.
70
The Dissolve by Sheila O’Malley
A good-looking, sometimes completely terrifying haunted-house story.
50
The New York Times by Anita Gates
The film’s writer and director, Ivan Kavanagh, and his team pull off a few enjoyable, decently creepy scares, but over all, the action is too cryptic, and the pedestrian dialogue doesn’t help.
38
Slant Magazine by Ed Gonzalez
Unlike David Lynch, Ivan Kavanagh isn't interested in catching ideas like fish, of linking the degradation of film to the degradation of consciousness.
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