Falling Stars

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Falling Stars

2023

1h 20m

Drama

Horror

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On the night of first harvest, three brothers in the American West set out to see a dead witch buried by their friend. When they accidentally desecrate the body, they learn the only way to stop a curse on their family is to burn it before sunrise. This story deals in many ways with the costs of coming-of-age. To leave the shelter of home and venture off into the unknown under the burden of youthful free will without a grasp of the consequences.

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Alison Foreman

indieWire

The result is a raw allegory ripped from the contradictions of American life -- bewitching but not beyond help under oppressively spacious skies.

Rated: B+

Oct 14, 2024

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Robert Daniels

Screen International

Falling Stars, tumbles toward a safe landing that leaves its attempted reinvention of Wiccan legends thematically thin

Aug 9, 2023

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

This is a solid, quiet film, one where the viewer is pulled in slowly and their attention is kept throughout even when a scene here and there doesn’t work.

Nov 6, 2024

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Robert W. Monk

Flickering Myth

This low-budget slice of American folk horror poetically captures the sheer dread of the unknowable amidst a dense pool of pitch-black night sky.

Nov 3, 2024

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C.H. Newell

Father Son Holy Gore

Falling Stars focuses on one family specifically and dives into how generational legacies continue to haunt entire bloodlines.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 18, 2024

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Corny as that may sound, the result is never laughable or formulaic—the quiet urgency of the direction, Karpala's script, and the performances (including one long, unsettling scene for Diane Worman as the leads' mother) are gripping.

Oct 15, 2024

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Hex P

Low budget loser that fails in every way - poor cinematography that’s a bore, script or is it editing? is beyond confusing so the story and world building makes little sense. Characters fail to make me care about them, don’t waste your time and money. We turned it off half way through.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/13/24

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Synopsis

On the night of first harvest, three brothers in the American West set out to see a dead witch buried by their friend. When they accidentally desecrate the body, they learn the only way to stop a curse on their family is to burn it before sunrise. This story deals in many ways with the costs of coming-of-age. To leave the shelter of home and venture off into the unknown under the burden of youthful free will without a grasp of the consequences.

Director: Gabriel Bienczycki, Richard Karpala
Producer: Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki
Screenwriter: Richard Karpala
Distributor: XYZ Films
Genre: Drama, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 11, 2024
Runtime: 1h 20m

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