Birthrite

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Birthrite

Aug 2025

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

Aug 16

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.

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Abbie Bernstein

Assignment X

Aug 11

B-

Properly spooky and occult.

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Luna Guthrie

Collider

Aug 8

7/10

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.

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Karina Adelgaard

Heaven of Horror

Aug 8

3/5

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.

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Mark Dujsik

Mark Reviews Movies

Aug 7

3/4

[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.

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Hannah Gearan

Screen Rant

Aug 7

6/10

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

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Hugo S

5d

After inheriting a secluded house, a pregnant woman and her girlfriend leave city life to begin a new chapter with their first child. The couple soon realizes their future as a family is at risk of being engulfed by a generational curse threatening their unborn child. "Birthrite" is a horror movie that explores the anxieties of motherhood and the mental exhaustion that often accompanies first-time mothers. The narrative embodies all the clichés of folk and pagan horror themes, unveiling the movie's mystery too early to the point of removing any element of surprise. Only the committed performances from the lead actresses save the movie from being a dull experience!

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Stoner J

@Stoner Oct 19

Could have been a good devil-baby horror movie but it wasn’t. It really could have been better and more interesting but was written the opposite of that. Not scary at all

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Slick R

@SlickReviewer Aug 19

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

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acsdoug D

@acsdoug Aug 14

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.

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Matthew S

Aug 13

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.

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Emilie P

Aug 11

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!

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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.

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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