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Visitors

2014 · 1h 40m · N/A Horror
Directed by Acán Coen

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Overview

When Daniel is possessed by a strange being it tries to bring back from the other world the rest of its companions in the bodies of Ana, Daniel’s wife, and Sebastian, their six year old son. Ana watches in horror as her family is transformed and sees her own possession, and tries to stop the process that seems to be irreversible.

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All reviews
33%
Tomatometer
Fresh

With only 74 slowly unfolding shots, it's closer to gallery installation than conventional cinema, but for audiences open to the experience, it's inexplicably compelling.

Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Fresh

Non-narrative films can be opaque in deep ways. Visitors slips into pseudo-profundity. That said, I'd see it again.

Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

We get the point, and have gotten it since 1982. And aestheticizing it in this way doesn't make the message any more convincing or urgent.

Peter Keough, Boston Globe
Rotten

The "oh, come off it" art movie of 2014.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten

Reggio has talked about his movies as attempts to bypass the intellect, a "visceral form of cinema" that's "aimed at your solar plexus." But you may experience "Visitors" as more of a sedative than a punch in the guts.

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

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