A typical modern family gathers for Christmas, full of nostalgia and bickering. They wake on Christmas morning to find they are unable to leave. At last: a great Christmas horror film from the UK.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

This 2018 horror flick takes a terrific premise and turns it into a long Facebook comment from your most unreflective progressive friend.

| Mar 26, 2020

Despite its amalgam of styles and influences, Await Further Instructions transcends mere pastiche, adding a unique wrinkle to otherwise familiar terrain.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2019

sends out an agreeably grisly, condemnatory and satisfactory signal

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2019

Await Further Instructions launches into survivalist psychotics that embrace walled-in escalation, always building towards "that" finale. The ride is filled with highs and lows, but damn if Johnny Kevorkian doesn't stick that landing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 24, 2019

Await Further Instructions comes along at the perfect time, evoking much of the horror in a post-Brexit/Trump landscape, from the U.K. to here in Canada and the U.S.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2019

Genre fans will enjoy the escalating mayhem and some moments of inventive, audacious grisliness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2018

In its final stretch, Await Further Instructions reveals itself as a hollow, hamfisted polemic, one with all the profundity of a bumper sticker.

| Original Score: D+ | Dec 7, 2018

There's armrest-clutching brilliance in the way this sweatily tense low-budget British horror lays out a family Christmas from hell, and then cranks it up into something truly gruesome.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2018

Johnny Kevorkian has created a clever and brutal film which melds sci-fi with horror to great effect.

| Dec 3, 2018

A horror film in the tradition of Night of the Living Dead, gathering a group of people in a house with an unexplained threat outside and observing as fear gives way to anger and violence. It's the Bottle Episode from Hell.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2018

It isn't always pleasant to watch a family disintegrate into chaos and madness, but this is a compelling example that goes in directions that are more than surprising, they're shocking.

| Oct 31, 2018

Await Further Instructions deliberately resists pitting the characters' beliefs against each other in favour of keeping the conflict shallow and straightforward...This is particularly true once the body count begins to rise

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 6, 2018

This British sci-fi thriller is like the violent offspring of "Black Mirror."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2018

An important subject doesn't necessarily make for a thrilling satire/social critique and Kevorkian and Williams simply aren't outlandish enough to land their half-baked ideas about television's dominating influence.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 5, 2018

Toxic patriarchy and all-access paranoia flourish in "Await Further Instructions," Johnny Kevorkian's genuinely upsetting, supremely British horror-sci-fi hybrid.

| Oct 4, 2018

A single situation story that explores the horrors of family, conformity and our relationship with technology; go in fresh and enjoy the journey of Await Further Instructions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2018

Gavin Williams' script has managed to pre-empt so much of the division and bias that we see in today's society and skilfully focuses it back on the root problem: hereditary abuse and toxic masculinity.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 4, 2018

There's bleak realism behind the comedy, Cruttenden's twitchy performance suggesting that power games in this household are nothing new. The final scenes, anarchic and glorious, will not easily be forgotten.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 28, 2018

[The] unraveling nightmare is a visceral, pertinent examination of the human condition as rules of order and decency break down and a chilling, mysterious new reality takes over.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jul 2, 2018