It takes the film a while to find its footing, but — due in large part to Crampton’s performance — Jakob’s Wife sticks the landing and gives horror fans a bloody feminist horror story with bite.

| Dec 22, 2022

All in all, Jakob's Wife was a disappointment. The premise and the central performance were there, but the script and the inexplicably campy touches keep this thing from realizing its full potential.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 17, 2022

Two horror legends, Crampton and Fessenden, bring gigantic amounts of gravitas.

| Sep 14, 2021

Jakob's Wife could have been more streamlined to tell a more satisfying story.

| Sep 13, 2021

Both leads get to use their abilities to the full in this rich, indulgent piece of work, and they're a delight to watch. The vampire film has grown up, so set aside the garlic and enjoy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2021

Jakob's Wife delivers a unique vampire that still relies on many of the classic conventions, but it reinvents some of the rules just enough to make this a familiar yet refreshing take.

| Sep 2, 2021

Somehow Jakob's Wife works thanks to the charm of the 2 leads (can you really go wrong with Crampton?) and the bloody creativity of the vampire angle. Watching Barbara C. transform into a vamp is such delicious fun.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Sep 1, 2021

Just when it seems like vampire entertainment has bled itself dry, along comes something like Jakob's Wife with the right amount of smarts and gore to bring it back from the dead.

| Aug 28, 2021

Jakob's Wife is a fun splatter horror comedy that serves to satiate gorehounds as well as those who are looking for an amusingly sharp look at the confines of marriage; led by a fantastic performance from Barbara Crampton.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2021

Even though the tone shifts, it's not just bouncing around in different spots.... It never feels jarring. It feels very organic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2021

A tart comedy-horror about the limitations placed on women, and how they're often viewed solely in terms in relation to others; principally as a wife or a mother.

| Original Score: 4 | Aug 19, 2021

The film could have been a bit more audacious about tweaking Christian pieties, but you can't have everything.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2021

It would be easy to label Travis Stevens' Jakob's Wife as just a vampire movie. It's a relationship drama about a middle-aged couple re-finding (and redefining) their love. It just so happens the wife in the relationship is a vampire.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Aug 16, 2021

Really the whole reason you need to watch this is for Barbara Crampton. To see her take the lead and slay the entire film using all of the talent she has is just BEAUTIFUL.

| Aug 7, 2021

Jakob's Wife if a gift to genre-fans of a wholly underappreciated but familiar presence, giving especially Barbara Crampton and fans of Barbara Crampton a big bloody feast to sink our fangs into

| Jul 20, 2021

Twisted, unusual, and often unpredictable, the few missteps that slipped into the final cut doesn't take away from the accomplishment of this little vampire story that could.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2021

Very little of the comedy is memorable or worth more than light acknowledgment [and] the gore effects are uninspired despite fountains of blood.

| Jun 6, 2021

genre veterans Barbara Crampton and Larry Fessenden shine in this irreverent and consistently amusing vampire comedy

| May 21, 2021

Barbara Crampton truly embraces her role in a movie that has it's ups and downs. Besides that, it's smart, has something to say about the role of patriarchy in religion, and brings some hilarity.

| May 12, 2021

[This] fable about a woman's mid-life crisis told in the form of a horror fantasy...proves neither scary enough nor funny enough, and on the message front it's certainly not insightful.

| Original Score: C- | May 10, 2021