The Outwaters

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The Outwaters

2023

1h 50m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Four travelers experience a mind-bending trip through terror while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave desert.

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The Outwaters may strike some viewers as frustratingly withholding, but it remains an ambitious -- and overall effective -- slice of found-footage horror.

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Kim Newman

Sight & Sound

If the job of a horror film is to terrify, then The Outwaters is refreshingly direct and astonishingly successful even as it is, in certain ways, wilfully obscure.

Jul 8, 2024

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Alison Willmore

New York Magazine/Vulture

The Outwaters sounds Blair Witch–like on paper, down to the camping trip its group of four friends is taking. But the actual experience of watching it is an astonishing array of dreamlike imagery as the trip goes from mundane to macabre.

Dec 9, 2023

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

Lacing the scramble too with a cosmic hint of Stanley Kubrick, director and star Robbie Banfitch touches on something truly nightmarish.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 6, 2023

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Rebecca Sayce

FILMHOUNDS Magazine

Both hypnotising and horrifying, The Outwaters perfectly plays on the natural human urge to understand our surroundings and the meaning behind madness.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 24, 2025

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Rocco T. Thompson

Daily Dead

Liminal horror is having a moment, and while Skinamarink may have been the viral, nothing-but-vibes flavor of the year, the rest of us were jabbering about The Outwaters to anyone who would listen.

Jul 3, 2024

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Bee Delores

B-Sides & Badlands

The Outwaters doesn’t play it safe. In fact, it goes big and bold with its conceit in such a way that makes it nothing short of a vital entry in the genre.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 3, 2024

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Roy

freaky as hell. loved it

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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esteban l

Movie was a trip and not a good one

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Melissa

It was poorly made I wasted my money

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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matt

Do not watch cheap budget. Did not enjoy it. Feel for the trap of a good rating and I regret it

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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michael s

I liked it. It was definitely weird. I liked how it was left up to the viewer to figure it out

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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christine lecter

i liked the 3rd act. it's a little slow & annoying at first. but by the end i thought it was really good.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Synopsis

Four travelers experience a mind-bending trip through terror while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave desert.

Director: Robbie Banfitch
Producer: Robbie Banfitch, Beau J. Genot
Screenwriter: Robbie Banfitch
Distributor: Cinedigm
Production Co: 5100 Films, Fathom Films
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 1h 50m

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