Thorndike moves toward significant storylines and then retreats, failing to take advantage of its potential.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 7, 2023

“Bad Things” juggles too many elements with too little focus. It plays out like a waiting game, with a pace that stumbles through its 84-minute runtime with plenty of hollow conversations and a few teases of tension.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2023

At a time when most movies are derivative without engagement, it’s thrilling to get a film that finds originality in reimagination.

| Aug 18, 2023

This movie is a long-term occupancy filled with shivers of twentysomething anxiety and maternal oppression.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2023

Not original but not quite homage, always watchable but never as compelling as it might have been.

| Jun 16, 2023

A film with a great cast and fun setting that can’t find the right tone or overcome some truly clunky dialogue and characters.

| Jun 15, 2023

A wild film on its own merits and a fascinating one when considered alongside Lyle, Bad Things guarantees that Thorndike’s unfolding ‘motherhood’ trilogy has been well worth the wait.

| Jun 11, 2023

The film’s lo-fi quality and stellar cast chemistry makes the feature an easily watchable horror film.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 10, 2023