An entertaining genre film, presenting a handful of scenes to satisfy the gore mongers as well as those seeking a little substance.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Although "Afflicted" is light on truly frightening moments, it compensates with plenty of personality and chill.

| Nov 22, 2018

There's no beauty or inspiration in the film's shooting style, and most importantly, no terror. If this is "ingenious" horror filmmaking, as the programme note suggests, get me off this planet.

| Oct 2, 2017

Despite thinking you may know where the story is headed, it continually subverts expectations and in places it doesn't, there's at least quality entertainment.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 23, 2016

This isn't the most exhilarating or groundbreaking endeavor of the horror genre, yet its cinematic and visual modus operandi works like a charm.

| Mar 1, 2016

Rather than letting their budgetary constraints hold back their story, Prowse and Lee let their stunning visuals and compelling story do all the heavy lifting, creating a horror tale that's as scary as it is endearing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2016

Afflicted may be slightly more entertaining than most others films of the same type, but it's still unable to hide the fact that it's just as empty as most of them as well.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 30, 2014

When it comes to the ongoing cycle of handheld horror films at the local movie theater, there are far worse choices than a movie like Afflicted.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 13, 2014

Lee and Prowse clearly have filmmaking abilities, but Afflicted doesn't feel complete. It's more of a cinematic sharpening stone than a deeply considered merging of genre and style.

| Original Score: C | Apr 17, 2014

A mix of "Innocent Blood," and Cronenberg's "The Fly," with a hefty injection of "Chronicle."

| Apr 4, 2014

There's life yet in the found-footage horror genre.

| Apr 4, 2014

The best found-footage movie since CHRONICLE. Ambitious, and beautifully shot.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 4, 2014

"Afflicted" is as emotionally involving as a really accomplished special-effects sizzle reel.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2014

Runs smack into a number of generic clichs, from the back-and-forth bickering about how to deal with the situation to a lazy underlying misogyny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2014

"Found footage" has become a tired technique, but Lee and Prowse, who also wrote the screenplay, give it new life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 3, 2014

A nifty found-footage thriller that marks a promising debut for writing-directing duo Clif Prowse and Derek Lee.

| Apr 3, 2014

Ambitious in scope and practically flawless in execution, Afflicted is good news for horror fans seeking something fresh and chilling from two impressively assured young filmmakers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2014

Multiple shots are thrillingly disorienting without straying into incoherence-a tricky line to walk-and it's genuinely hard to tell whether certain effects [...] are practical or computer-generated.

| Original Score: 3.0/5 | Apr 3, 2014

...illustrates the full cycle of evolution that the genre has endured since it first creeped us out.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 3, 2014

[Afflicted] evokes the escalating panic of a nightmare far better than the usual cheap horror film.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 3, 2014