The Show

2020

1 hr. 55 min.

Fantasy

Drama

List

79%

19 Reviews

Tomatometer

69%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

Audience Score

A man goes on a mission to locate a stolen artifact for a client, which leads him to a haunted town full of vampires, sleeping beauties and Voodoo gangsters.

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brad p

While the plot was overly convoluted and the film probably requires multiple viewings to fully understand, The Show still featured an entertaining cast of eccentric side characters, making it an exaggerated and unforgettable examination of life in Northampton.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Darren C

Honestly loved it, would give it 5 stars if there was another film or follow on series.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/04/22

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Audience Member

Excellent surreal noir fantasy. Loved it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

What Film is supposed to be. Creativity and originality, those rarest of wild creatures, have made a nest in the head of master storyteller Moore and hatched a plot to inspire the imagination, intelligence and sense of playfulness in as many grokking humans as possible. A film for artists, poets, writers, musicians and techno-shamans of all stripes: multi-layered surrealism that never falls into self-indulgence or over-seriousness. A childlike wonder lies just under the surface of the terribly hip and ultra-modern sensibilities, fostering great dialog and fleeting glimpses of a symbolic universe just beyond the grasp of rational constraints. The acting, too, embodies that symbolic universe, acting more like fingers pointing to the moon than realistic persons. All the darkness and light anyone could ask for, in a kaleidoscopic mixture of magic and the mundane. Just because it's a cliche, doesn't mean it isn't true: each repeated viewing uncovers more of the poetic genius behind artistic and magical intent. Also, it is Great Fun.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

A thoroughly bizarre film with more than a few echoes of Twin Peaks. The director is overly fond of his dutch angles but it's sharply written and anything that can make Northampton seem interesting is well worth your time.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Manny P

My senses were heightened ( no pun intended ) when I saw Tom Burke' name attached. Some of the throwaway lines are laugh out loud funny. " I see dead people", "you work in a hospital ?!". I mean, Steve Lipman is his character name ! Stick with it, it's a trippy little piece.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/22

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Mitch Jenkins

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Ellie Bamber

Becky Cornelius

Tom Burke

Fletcher Dennis

Darrell D'Silva

James Mitchum

Christopher Fairbank

Patsy Bleaker

Antonia Campbell-Hughes

Monica Beardsley

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

The plot is a Chandlerian shoal of red herrings but, like Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics, no detail is accidental...

Rated: 4/5

Oct 13, 2021

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Kristy Puchko

IGN Movies

The Show is an unrepentantly trippy Noir that assaults the senses, cackling all the while.

Rated: 9/10

Sep 16, 2021

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

Fun if perhaps a little too tongue-in-cheek for its own good, the results will no doubt appeal most to Moore fans who'll revel in his Byzantine plotting, noirish tropes and other signature elements.

Aug 26, 2021

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Tom Cassidy

Common Sense Media

Uncompromising and divisive by design, this fantasy drama's off-kilter world is an acquired taste that's likely to turn off as many people as it pleases.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 30, 2021

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Marc Burrows

HeyUGuys

Northampton is as cinematic as it is strange, and nothing is quite as it seems, this could be one of the best things you'll see this year.

Oct 22, 2021

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David Gelmini

Dread Central

The Show still featured an entertaining cast of eccentric side characters, making it an exaggerated and unforgettable examination of life in Northampton.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 22, 2021

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Synopsis

A man goes on a mission to locate a stolen artifact for a client, which leads him to a haunted town full of vampires, sleeping beauties and Voodoo gangsters.

Director: Mitch Jenkins
Executive Producer: Peter Hampden, Siobhan Hewlett, Norman Merry
Screenwriter: Alan Moore
Production Co: Lex Films, EMU Films
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 5, 2021
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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