Birthrite

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Birthrite

Released Aug 8

1h 40m

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Mystery & Thriller

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When a pregnant woman is bequeathed a home from an estranged aunt, she and her girlfriend leave the city behind to begin new chapter. But when a karmic debt threatens the life of their unborn child, they soon discover their place in the cursed history of the town.

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

The slow-paced and cliché-ridden horror movie Birthrite fails to create much suspense when the answer to the mystery is revealed too early in this drab story. It’s about a sinister fertility clinic, witchcraft, and a couple trying to have a baby.

Aug 16, 2025

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Abbie Bernstein

Assignment X

Properly spooky and occult.

Rated: B-

Aug 11, 2025

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Luna Guthrie

Collider

Birthrite is another much-needed voice in the landscape of female-centric horror. It certainly doesn't suffer from being directed by a man, and is carried by strong female performances and a firm position of fairness to its characters.

Rated: 7/10

Aug 8, 2025

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Karina Adelgaard

Heaven of Horror

If you’re expecting or trying to get pregnant, this may be one to skip if you’re sensitive to those stories. Hey, no judgment, just trying to give you a heads up. It is a good movie… but quite brutal.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 8, 2025

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Mark Dujsik

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[T]he film is quiet, meticulously paced, and creates an air of dread by way of its characters, its central mystery, and some cleverly implemented dramatic irony.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 7, 2025

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Hannah Gearan

Screen Rant

I love pregnancy horror films, but Birthrite exhibits both the subgenre's greatest strengths and most glaring flaws.

Rated: 6/10

Aug 7, 2025

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Slick R

So. Freaking. Slow. It's not even a real slow burn because you won't want to finish it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/19/25

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acsdoug D

This is one of those horror movies when the weirdness starts and you and everyone else would get the hell out of there, but the characters act like dumbasses and stick around. This is also one of those horror movies that you keep watching in the hope that it will get better, but it never does.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/14/25

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Matthew S

The horror genre has a new small-town sheriff in town. Ross Partridge brings a steady hand and a calm resolve to this tale of generational crisis and communal depravity. This visually compelling film features brilliant performances (Alice Kremelberg and Jennifer Lafleur both coruscate with every line), and is a revelatory lesson in making much from limited resources. At every level, this picture gushes talent like blood from a fresh gash across the larynx.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/13/25

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Emilie P

Loved everything about this film. The acting, scenery, filming, music all worked so well together and had my guessing right up until the end. At times brutal but all in all a perfect psychological thriller that I enjoyed throughly!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/11/25

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Spike D

It's never a good sign when an hour-and-forty horror film feels three times as long.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/10/25

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Evin G

Birthrite was completely unnerving, surprising and a psychological mind fkc.. I watched it last night and it has stayed with me all morning- an incredible entry into the folk horror genre. It’s an Updated Rose Mary’s baby that goes in a whole new direction, I don’t want to give anything away, haunting is the word. Acting/directing/writing is terrific- cinematography is gorgeous- worth it!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/09/25

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Ross Partridge

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Alice Kremelberg

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Juani Feliz

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Michael Chernus

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Patch Darragh

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Owen Campbell

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Synopsis

When a pregnant woman is bequeathed a home from an estranged aunt, she and her girlfriend leave the city behind to begin new chapter. But when a karmic debt threatens the life of their unborn child, they soon discover their place in the cursed history of the town.

Director: Ross Partridge
Producer: Ross Partridge, Kelly Frazier
Screenwriter: Patch Darragh, Erin Gann
Distributor: Brainstorm Media
Production Co: K7 Storytellers
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 8, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 8, 2025
Runtime: 1h 40m

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