Dementer takes the term “slow burn” to a new level, putting its audience on edge from the very first frame while hypnotizing them at the same time.

| Dec 22, 2022

With Groshong's steadfast interpretation hammering home how justified her character feels in her course of action, it's a reminder that true horror resides in the mind.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2021

This film will both expand your empathy for those who work in health care and teach an unspeakable ritual for binding the devils, both of which are very useful.

| Sep 9, 2021

Kinkle's sophomore film is a difficult watch, and won't be for everyone. As the movie builds to its climax, the nightmarish imagery and sound design take over.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2021

one of the year's darkest and strangest (and best) indie horror releases

| Apr 17, 2021

Psychological horror that brings a cult survivor into the world of adults with special needs. Is her experience more real than theirs? And who do they need protecting from?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 14, 2021

Chad Crawford Kinkle knows eerie, quirky ambiance (having Larry Fessenden acting helps) even if the occult odyssey doesn't quite marry up in the end. Groshong's performance goes a long way to sell the psychodrama...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2021

Dementer sets out everything it's going to do in its first few minutes - and, to its detriment, it doesn't move forward from there.

| Mar 10, 2021

A micro-budget horror pic that effectively in a surreal way tells about folks with strange beliefs in the backwoods of Tennessee.

| Original Score: B | Mar 10, 2021

There are some great visuals towards the end as Katie's hallucinations become more prominent, but Dementer is a confusing movie with little solutions to a half baked plot.

| Mar 7, 2021

Chad Crawford Kinkle's micro-budget supernatural horror film "Dementer" is unsettling right from the start.

| Mar 6, 2021

Dementer comes up short in trying to merge the realities of what, throughout the film, remain disconnected worlds.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2021

The production reinforces Kinkle's capabilities with limited coin and tales of weird southern threats, adding another original vision to his filmography.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 25, 2021

Has its flaws but an incredibly engaging horror movie on many levels. The setting is one rarely used in the genre providing a refreshing feel to the familiar premise.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 1, 2020

It dabbles in cults, satanism, and psychosis. The movie hinges on the question of: "is this happening in Katie's head or is it real?" Unfortunately, the ambiguity doesn't quite land this time around.

| Jun 24, 2020

Dementer takes a satisfyingly dark turn that will redeem most of its minor flaws that pepper the runtime.

| Original Score: 6 | Feb 9, 2020

Dementer strips away excessive artifice and indulgences, and get to the heart and blood of a story on the ties that bind us, and our misguided attempts to help others, as the scars that can never quite heal or hold back the blood.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2019

Simultaneously hyper-real and hallucinatory, Dementer is quite unlike anything you've seen before.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2019

It's a very idiosyncratic film, much like Kinkle's first film ... It's the kind of movie that will be someone's favorite film this year.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2019

Anyone with an interest in a genuinely unsettling horror flick that also has some deep thoughts in its head should make a point to check this one out.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2019