The Arbors

2020

1h 56m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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Set against a dreary small town, The Arbors follows Ethan Daunes, a reclusive locksmith struggling to keep ties with his younger brother, Shane. Ethan's life takes an unsettling turn after finding a strange small creature and forming a mysterious connection. After a string of unexplained killings, the creature's true nature is soon revealed, and Ethan finds himself at the center of panic and paranoia.

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Steve Davis

Austin Chronicle

It's a fairly sophisticated (almost noirish) psychological narrative for the genre, and director Witmer does a fine job of maintaining a keen sense of anxiety in the film.

Nov 10, 2020

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

If viewers can get through watching this whole movie without falling asleep, they'll find the ending to be so disappointing that sleeping through it would be a much better option ... The story is a sluggishly paced, dimwitted mess, and it ruins the movie.

Apr 6, 2021

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Stefan Birgir Stefans

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Lurking inside a two-hour runtime there is a great 80-minute flick; however, in its current state it's dull at times and uninteresting. The mind wanders away from the screen while a lonely man reflects awkwardly on what to do with this murderous creature.

Rated: 2.5/5

Mar 28, 2021

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Michael Gingold

Rue Morgue Magazine

It's a carefully controlled, well-thought-out and finely crafted film that's being sold as a monster movie but is really a disquieting mood piece.

Mar 26, 2021

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Roger Moore

Movie Nation

A creature feature every bit as exciting as its title, akin to "watching trees grow," as the joke goes.

Rated: 1/4

Mar 23, 2021

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Seth Troyer

Dread Central

This is a complex, brooding film that deserves to move beyond the indie circuit to devour a wider audience.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 28, 2020

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Brad P

A film where paranoia runs rampant in a setting that will make suburbanites shudder with recognition and city dwellers remember why they fled their small towns in the first place.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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R R

It was an "OK" movie I guess...it was rather dull at times.......ending was very drab.....hard to figure out connection between that critter & the kid. Seen much better movies, no doubt. I would probably not watch if someone would have told me.....& reading reviews before I watch anything really does not work for me to well.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Jim S

The main character has obvious abandonment issues from his childhood, but without his backstory one would believe he's autistic and undermine his character. It's not reasonable to have expectations of how someone should react to grief, but his over-the-top melancholy created a major plot hole in the storyline. His family and unrealistic ex-girlfriend were oblivious to the presence of his clearly visible severe mental health issues. I'm guessing he's behaved like that since his unfortunate abandonment events during his adolescence and it's merely been his norm or the status quo (thus the premise of an "Ex" is ridiculous unless she raised the "thirsty" bar beyond imagination because homeboy took "emotionally unavailable" to an all new level!). His extreme apathetic depressive state was just too big of an incidence of "the elephant in the room" to realistically have been ignored for viewers to realistically accept the possibility of the existence of such a temperament.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/04/22

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Stacey W

The script was marginal, the cast okay, except the actor who plays the cop, atrocious acting. Put a little money into the costumes and it would improve the movie. Overall a poor movie.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/21/22

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ryan r

When I was watching the movie, the thing that stuck out to me was how stupid most of the characters acted.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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amy s

This has to be the worst movie and makes no sense. The lead actor is more evil than the monster. Why didn't he just take a photo of the spider inside the deer with his cell phone, and send it to the police?. He did one despicable act after the next.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Clayton Witmer

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Drew Matthews

Ethan Daunes

Ryan Davenport

Shane Daunes

Sarah Cochrane

Robin Daunes

Daryl Munroe

Connie Tern

Alexandra Rose

Lynn Daunes

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Set against a dreary small town, The Arbors follows Ethan Daunes, a reclusive locksmith struggling to keep ties with his younger brother, Shane. Ethan's life takes an unsettling turn after finding a strange small creature and forming a mysterious connection. After a string of unexplained killings, the creature's true nature is soon revealed, and Ethan finds himself at the center of panic and paranoia.

Director: Clayton Witmer
Producer: Christian Larsen, Georgia Harper
Screenwriter: Clayton Witmer, Chelsey Cummings
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 26, 2021
Runtime: 1h 56m

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