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The Carnivores

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The Carnivores
Directed byCaleb Michael Johnson
Written byCaleb Michael Johnson
Jeff Bay Smith
Produced byTed Speaker
Caleb Johnson
Thomas Fernandes
Alan J. Minnick
Heather Johnson
Jeff Bay Smith
StarringLindsay Burdge
Tallie Medel
Frank Mosley
CinematographyCaleb Michael Johnson
Adam J. Minnick
Edited byCaleb Michael Johnson
Music byCurtis Heath
Production
company
Silver Spectral Pictures
Distributed byDark Sky Films
Release date
  • March 14, 2020 (2020-03-14) (Austin)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Carnivores is a 2020 American thriller comedy drama film written by Caleb Michael Johnson and Jeff Bay Smith, directed by Johnson and starring Lindsay Burdge, Tallie Medel and Frank Mosley.

Cast

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Release

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The film premiered at a "private event" in Austin, Texas on March 14, 2020.[1]

Reception

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The film has an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews.[2]

Chuck Bowen of Slant Magazine awarded the film three stars out of four and wrote, "The characters don’t exist solely to affirm the film’s various themes, and as a result, their humanity gets under your skin."[3]

Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave the film a positive review and wrote, "...there’s something daring and memorable about Johnson’s vision of possible mental illness and marital strife."[4]

Joe Leydon of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Caleb Michael Johnson’s psychological thriller pivots on the possibility of love as a kind of all-consuming madness."[1]

Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle awarded the film three and a half stars out of five and wrote, "...Medel’s perfectly raw and queasily realistic performance of an already insecure mind coming wholly unhinged, and cinematographer Adam J. Minnick’s canted camera setups and dreamy-dreary color palette, The Carnivores is a slow burning bad dream."[5]

Alex Saveliev of Film Threat rated the film a 7 out of 10 and wrote, "Filled with non-sequiturs, abrupt cuts, and nightmarish interludes, The Carnivores is not without its moments of humor."[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b Leydon, Joe (March 14, 2020). "'The Carnivores': Film Review". Variety. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  2. ^ "The Carnivores". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  3. ^ Bowen, Chuck (May 31, 2021). "Review: The Carnivores Is a Jolting Take on Love as a Conduit to Madness". Slant Magazine. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  4. ^ Tallerico, Brian (March 19, 2020). "The SXSW That Never Was: The Feature Films". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  5. ^ Savlov, Marc (June 4, 2021). "The Carnivores". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  6. ^ Saveliev, Alex (March 22, 2020). "The Carnivores". Film Threat. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
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