The Summoned

2022

1h 24m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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63%

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16 Reviews

33%

Audience Score

Fewer than 50 Ratings

Summoned to an exclusive self-help retreat, a young man learns that he must settle a supernatural debt that dates back generations.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

Director Mark Meir and screenwriter Yuri Baranovsky take too long to get to the movie’s biggest twist; and in general, “The Summoned” is too light on action and tension.

Jul 8, 2022

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Kat Hughes

THN

Not so much the ‘next Get Out’, The Summoned is instead an interesting, but somewhat subdued, Faustian story.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 28, 2022

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Shaun Munro

Flickering Myth

The Summoned begins in tantalising fashion and benefits from the work of skilled lead J. Quinton Johnson, yet becomes considerably less interesting the longer it ambles on.

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 26, 2022

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Mark H. Harris

Black Horror Movies

First-time director Mark Meir does pepper in some striking visuals, though, and he’s able to make good use of the scenic locale, but it’s not enough to liven up the pedestrian plot.

Rated: 2.7/5

Jul 22, 2022

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Anton Bitel

Projected Figures

In Mark Meir’s Faustian feature debut, an ambitious African-American man finds himself caught between contract and script

Jul 16, 2022

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

The subtext here is much darker than the story itself.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 13, 2022

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brad p

While the story starts to fall apart in the third act, all of the performances, especially Joseph, hold ‘The Summoned' together as each character becomes more and more unhinged.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Overall, what begins as an exciting premise with a few fun, mysterious plot aspects soon falls down the hole of being highly familiar, lacking excitement with a finale that hints at a substantial payoff but only fizzles. The characters here also carry characteristics and personalities we've all seen before in horror films. While the performances are generally ok, the dialogue here feels clunky, corny, and even unintelligibly comedic. As a horror film, there are plenty of attempts at jump scares and unsettling moments, but sadly, no significant impact is ever delivered in the end. Sadly, The Summoned tries hard to have something substantial, but its familiarity and unpleasing reveals hurt this film the most. Fans of Jordan Peele will undoubtedly benefit from checking this one out the most, but I felt my time viewing it had only been wasted.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/11/23

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Aldis H

Not bad. A little boring at times, and it takes a dive downwards in the second half only to redeem itself just enough at the end to get 60%.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/22/22

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Synopsis

Summoned to an exclusive self-help retreat, a young man learns that he must settle a supernatural debt that dates back generations.

Director: Mark Meir
Screenwriter: Yuri Baranovsky
Production Co: Wicked Myth Films, Happy Little Guillotine Studios
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 7, 2022
Runtime: 1h 24m

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