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The Occupant

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Desperate to save her sister, Abby (Ella Balinska) takes a dangerous job in the remote Georgian wilderness. Stranded in the mountains after her helicopter crashes, she finds hope through John (Rob Delaney), a mysterious helper radioing from nearby. As he guides her through the harsh conditions, Abby struggles to survive, and her grip on reality falters until she is faced with an impossible choice.
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Brian Tallerico RogerEbert.com Aug 8
2/4
Part sci-fi, part family drama, part survival horror, it reminds one of an oft-repeated critical phrase of mine: If you make multiple movies at the same time, you often fail at making one. Go to Full Review
Paul Mount Starburst Oct 3
3/5
It’s powerful and its striking – it’s a hugely good-looking film – but there are times where it asks too many questions it doesn’t feel compelled to answer. Go to Full Review
Chris Joyce Movies and Munchies (YouTube) Aug 11
3.5/5
[The Occupant is] intense, quiet, beautifully shot, and terrifying, all while maintaining a pressure-cooker grip on the audience through Balinska’s endless drive. Go to Full Review
Peter Gray The AU Review Aug 11
3.5/5
Revels in both its sci-fi and action temperament as it details a haunting tale of grief and acceptance. Go to Full Review
Sarah Vincent Sarah G Vincent Views Aug 10
Some movies should remain shorts, especially if the other characters are not going to feel as real and three-dimensional as the protagonist. While the visuals are impressive, and it is well acted, the story needed more work. Go to Full Review
Jennie Kermode Eye for Film Aug 8
3/5
Having developed an interesting idea and set the pieces in motion, the creative team doesn’t seem to know what to do with the middle portion of the film. Go to Full Review
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thiago s @Thiagostone Dec 5 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more Nov 5 An amateurish film with an incredibly weak script, a hodgepodge of popular themes and downright clichés. It's all thrown together haphazardly, and it's completely unclear why. It feels like the film was made just for the sake of making it, so the script was hastily cobbled together from hyped-up themes and clichés: a dying sister who needs to be saved, a uranium mine in Georgia, some magical/alien rock lying in chunks underfoot, political problems in North Ossetia. It's all in one film. And those are just the ideas. Some scenes are even worse. The film isn't bad visually (especially the natural scenery), it has its own atmosphere, and even the acting is adequate, but the script is terribly weak and delusional. So much of it screams that this is Keijzer's first film, and he doesn't yet know how to make a good arthouse. Whether he'll ever learn, only time will tell. See more Veronica B Oct 24 This movie could have been an email... it was so boring and just kept going. 1 star for Ella's acting and the beautiful scenery. See more John G Oct 5 Never waste time on a movie with this wide a gap between the critics and the audience. The critics loved it, but the audience hated it, 68 rating point difference. The audience was right. One of the bleakest movies ever. See more Troy R Sep 30 Someone called it a less good, smaller budget Annihilation and I think that's a pretty spot on review. Lot less scifi than I would have liked and kind of a whatever ending. Acting was ok but nothing amazing. The scifi was pretty lame and could have easily been a mental breakdown rather than this lazy scifi hook. Character choices were probably the most annoying part, very silly reasoning and a lot of pointless things happened to eventually lead to the ending. See more Aldis H Sep 17 Well acted and shot, but it makes no sense, at least in a way where you know what's actually happening and whether or not any of this means anything and isn't just a fever dream, but nothing is explained. I felt precisely nothing for the characters at the end because I wasn't sure anything was real. I don't think the message could have been more muddled. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Desperate to save her sister, Abby (Ella Balinska) takes a dangerous job in the remote Georgian wilderness. Stranded in the mountains after her helicopter crashes, she finds hope through John (Rob Delaney), a mysterious helper radioing from nearby. As he guides her through the harsh conditions, Abby struggles to survive, and her grip on reality falters until she is faced with an impossible choice.
Director
Hugo Keijzer
Producer
Raymond van der Kaaij, Isabel Freer, Jay Taylor, Kwesi Dickson
Screenwriter
Philip Michael Howe, Hugo Keijzer, Roelof Jan Minneboo, Xiao Tang
Distributor
DECAL
Production Co
Revolver Amsterdam
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 8, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 8, 2025
Runtime
1h 44m
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