Humane

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Humane

R

2024

1h 33m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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HUMANE takes place over a single day, mere months after a global ecological collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce the earth's population. In a wealthy enclave, a recently retired newsman has invited his grown children to dinner to announce his intentions to enlist in the nation's new euthanasia program. But when the father's plan goes horribly awry, tensions flare and chaos erupts among his children.

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Critics Consensus

Humane's twisted psychological thrills are diverting enough in the moment to distract from its occasionally awkward attempts to balance sociopolitical commentary against high-concept horror.

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John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

Hardcore horror fans will get their dose of mayhem from Humane, though in its modest, tidily organized fashion the film might also get under the skin.

Jul 25, 2024

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Sergio Burstein

Los Angeles Times

Beyond the lack of subtlety of the message and the lack of depth of the characters, Cronenberg manages to make the proceedings entertaining and handles the actions well within this unique environment. [Full review in Spanish]

May 7, 2024

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

Cronenberg treats the mansion as an enormous stage set, turning “Humane” into a kind of psychodramatic slasher movie.

Apr 29, 2024

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Cameron Ritter

Geek Vibes Nation

Humane is a steady, if uninspiring, debut from Caitlin Cronenberg that has a lot to offer visually and an interesting world set up around the main story but doesn’t quite put many of the other pieces together.

Rated: 5.5/10

Jul 20, 2025

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John Daniel Tangalin

The Cinema Spot

Caitlin Cronenberg and Michael Sparaga almost satirize the modern world as we know it. What makes it a horror film lies in the horror of truth, which is that more people are dying than one would come to realize.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 18, 2025

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Samantha Schuster

Cinéfilo Serial

A film that blends earthly horror with a family drama to explore the consequences of climate change and the role societies play in its development. A critique of human misery with an atmosphere filled with tension and surprise. [Full Review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Jul 18, 2025

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Thomas L

The critics got this one wrong. A bad screen play. Poor acting. A movie that feels like a stage play that went wrong, so they called it a black comedy, but there is nothing funny about trying to get a rich family to knock each other off, and everyone keeps surviving. But they keep trying ..... Tedious humor. This movie was Dead On Arrival. This movie was Inhumane.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/30/25

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Murray C

Entertaining dystopian satire wikth an intriguing premise and some excellent darkly comic performances, notably from Bob, the principal antagonist. If the social commentary occasionally misfires and some of the direction is a bit clumsy, that's OK. Its an enjoyable beat-em-up romp through one family's nightmare scenario in an all-too-believable near future.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/13/25

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Jc B

As of writing date. ..77% rating? Really? Bad characters. Bad dialogues. Bad plot movement. Bad emotional development. Unsympathetic story development and characters. Unaliving people because of ...shortages. And the studio and/or writer decided to focus on a family with dumb interactions with each other AS pretentious musical scores blast on the background. Bro/sis...wtf. Couldve just given the money spent for this piece of crap to feed the poor. The irony. Who tf created those ratings for this dumbly and lack-of-life-experience-and-emotional-connection written movie. Did I mention that this should be nominated for all the Raspberry categories? Why am I so agitated? Because bad scripts are annoying and time-wasters.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/07/25

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Connie F

An interesting premise and slightly thought-provoking, but it's only the performances of an exceptional cast that makes this movie worth staying to the ending, which, by the way, seems written by someone with no understanding of human nature.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/27/25

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S R

Interesting story with excellent surprises.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/13/25

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Shanna H

It had it's quirks but I thought it was quite interesting. Sebastian Chacon did real great as his role of Noah, he was definitely my favorite character.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/05/25

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Synopsis

HUMANE takes place over a single day, mere months after a global ecological collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce the earth's population. In a wealthy enclave, a recently retired newsman has invited his grown children to dinner to announce his intentions to enlist in the nation's new euthanasia program. But when the father's plan goes horribly awry, tensions flare and chaos erupts among his children.

Director: Caitlin Cronenberg
Producer: Michael Sparaga
Screenwriter: Michael Sparaga
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Ontario Creates, Victory Man Productions, Téléfilm Canada, XYZ Films, The Harold Greenberg Fund, Prospero Pictures, Elevation Pictures
Rating: R (Strong Violence|Language Throughout)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 26, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 26, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $40.7K
Runtime: 1h 33m

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