Shell

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Shell

2024

1h 40m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Down on her luck actress Samantha Lake is invited into the ultra-glamorous world of Zoe Shannon, CEO of health & wellness company Shell. When their patients start to go missing, including starlet Chloe Benson, Samantha realizes Shell may be protecting a monstrous secret.

Jourdain Searles

Hollywood Reporter

Ultimately, Shell’s observations about the beauty industry are only skin-deep.

Sep 17, 2024

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Katie Rife

indieWire

When it accepts its destiny as a ‘50s-style rubber-suit sci-fi monster movie, Shell does have camp value to it. Even then, it still doesn’t commit to the bit hard enough to make it successful.

Rated: C

Sep 13, 2024

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Minghella crafts an escapist love letter to ’90s cinema. Its revolving door of genres and cheeky sense of humor makes for a welcome trip down memory lane.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 13, 2024

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Erik Childress

Movie Madness Podcast

A film that plays like a really subpar Michael Crichton medical thriller from the ‘70s or ‘80s wasting Elisabeth Moss while films like The Substance lays it to waste

Rated: 1/4

Oct 16, 2024

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Andrea Thompson

A Reel of One's Own

In an age where beauty influencers have become the new gurus, promising fulfillment on the inside and out, the movie wastes any potential Zoe has for great villain status...

Sep 30, 2024

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Ankit Jhunjhunwala

The Playlist

“Shell” is a breezy watch and maintains a light, playful tone throughout— the audience is meant to laugh with and at the movie.

Rated: B+

Sep 21, 2024

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Max Minghella

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Jack Stanley

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Fred Berger

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Synopsis

Down on her luck actress Samantha Lake is invited into the ultra-glamorous world of Zoe Shannon, CEO of health & wellness company Shell. When their patients start to go missing, including starlet Chloe Benson, Samantha realizes Shell may be protecting a monstrous secret.

Director: Max Minghella
Producer: Fred Berger, Alicia Van Couvering, Norman Golightly, Max Minghella, Lindsey McManus, Elisabeth Moss, Hal Sadoff
Screenwriter: Jack Stanley
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 40m