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The Moor

2023 2h 2m Drama Horror Mystery & Thriller TRAILER for List
75% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 20% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Claire was just a child when her best friend was abducted and murdered. Twenty-five years later, the killer has served his time and is due to be released. Claire is approached by Bill, the dead boy's father, who has a plan to keep the killer behind bars. With the help of psychic Eleanor, he takes them deep into the haunted moor which he believes is his son's final resting place. They find more than just the ghosts of dead children out there -- something else, something dark and evil, stirs beneath their feet.

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Phil Hoad Guardian If Cronin had stayed similarly grounded, he might have had one of the best British horror films in years on his hands; as it is, he hasn’t, but has a pretty promising future instead. Rated: 3/5 Jun 11, 2024 Full Review MontiLee Stormer MovieReelist.com The buildup of the crime aspect only to have the mystical intrude and undermine the entire case, feels like a war of writers, neither having enough for a full feature. Rated: 2.5/5 Jul 18, 2024 Full Review Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana Moving Pictures Film Club with hold-your-breath tension, Cronin creates an atmosphere that wholly immerses the audience in terror. Rated: 5/5 Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Abbie Bernstein Assignment X Pleasingly atmospheric ghost story. Rated: B Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Anton Bitel Projected Figures Chris Cronin’s cold-case mystery/folk horror sees two people seeking the right location to bury their grief, guilt and gall Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Charles Koplinski Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam A meandering mess of a movie, Chris Cronin’s “The Moor” is an occasionally effective thriller that proves sporadically engaging, only to squander its potential. Rated: 1.5/4.0 Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Tomas T So this was a very bad movie. The beginning looks quite interesting, but it is replaced by boredom, and when an interesting scene appears in the film, it is immediately replaced by boredom. Visualization and film effects are also not very impressive, so you are basically just bored from the beginning to the end of the film. And is this supposed to be horror? They can't possibly be serious. Just boring, boring and boring again. I definitely do not recommend this movie. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/06/24 Full Review Valerii Ege D The Moor promises suspense and intrigue but delivers only tedium. However, the film's visual and sound design are quite impressive. Chris Cronin, in my opinion, chose the wrong story. His visual vision is excellent; with a better story, he could gain significant recognition. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/11/24 Full Review scott l This could have been a great movie, it keeps you believing that it is going to get better, but it just doesn't. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/07/24 Full Review Anthony M My goodness, what a slog this movie was. Lingering shots of the moor coupled with a heavily doom-laden soundtrack are no substitutes for an effectively conjured feeling of evil. The only time weirdness raises its head is when a goat appears to commit suicide on the moor. We don't know why it did it, and that's what makes it genuinely spooky. Unfortunately, the scene highlights a lack of eeriness in the movie in general. Endlessly wandering around the misty moor looking scared just doesn't cut it. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/04/24 Full Review simon b Initially, this film has great potential. Despite an intriguing plot and credible characters (including the magnificent Bernard Hill) the film loses focus and ends up unsatisfactorily. There was scope here for a resolution but it never came. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/03/24 Full Review prawnda s it's pretty good, but the documentary style interviews seemed incredibly tacked on and served no narrative purpose, mostly or entirely being from people that were not part of the story. i think the film was otherwise solid, but those aspects should probably be edited out. i also thought the final sequence had too much exposition, and could have been summed up without the monologuing by the antagonist, the brief hospital sequence, or the journey home for the protagonist to do a podcast. i think every issue i had with the film could be solved by editing out parts of the existing footage, since it would probably end up being a succinct 90 minutes instead of the current 2 hours. following that ratio, i'd agree with the 75% critic rating this time, but that doesn't mean it's a bad movie. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/30/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Claire was just a child when her best friend was abducted and murdered. Twenty-five years later, the killer has served his time and is due to be released. Claire is approached by Bill, the dead boy's father, who has a plan to keep the killer behind bars. With the help of psychic Eleanor, he takes them deep into the haunted moor which he believes is his son's final resting place. They find more than just the ghosts of dead children out there -- something else, something dark and evil, stirs beneath their feet.
Director
Chris Cronin
Producer
Chris Cronin, Paul Thomas, Pawel Pracz
Screenwriter
Paul Thomas
Production Co
Nuclear Tangerine
Genre
Drama, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Runtime
2h 2m