Fourteen years after Inside, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury might have another classic on their hands.

| Jul 11, 2024

Bustillo and Maury are masters of the slow build, and so it goes in Kandisha, which becomes incrementally nastier and gorier with each new victim the vengeful spirit eliminates…

| Mar 25, 2024

[Kandisha] is another misstep by the French filmmakers within a genre that, at this point, they should already feel comfortable enough to create their own world, detached from an endless number of influences that lead to pastiche. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 12, 2023

Kandisha herself becomes increasingly terrifying as her plan for revenge expands, but it's the horrors of the immigrant experience that rest at the heart of the film.

| Oct 7, 2021

Despite some interesting visuals and creature design, this makes Kandisha a formulaic and somewhat disappointing slasher movie.

| Sep 13, 2021

Kandisha feels like an instant sleepover classic, and one that will take up space in the parts of the brain where the deepest shadows lay, especially with one of the gutsiest endings you'll see all year.

| Sep 8, 2021

This supernatural slasher may not offer anything new, but it does keep you entertained thanks to its characters, a fantastic looking entity, and some bone-crushing, ultra-violent deaths.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2021

An entertaining if a tad sluggish piece of horror.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 22, 2021

Even if you know where this film is going from a quarter of the way through, it's hugely entertaining to watch it play out.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2021

a group of young women summon a seemingly invincible spirit of vengeance -- and the results are not pretty.

| Aug 18, 2021

It's never boring, but it fails to summon a single memorable scare.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2021

Beneath a brutal supernatural revenge story, the film briefly touches on social issues from misogyny and racism to the Gothic, haunting legacy of colonialism in France.

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

Even at a slim 85 minutes, directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury take too long to get to the meat and gristle of this "Candyman-"like meal, but once they open the floodgates of terror they more than earn their gore gold medal...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 2, 2021

Filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo adeptly pull the audience in close before the next shattering fright.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2021

Kandisha is an effective effort from Bustillo and Maury that manages to provide the requisite genre thrills with carpentry-like precision. But it lacks a certain spark to become something that will truly linger in the minds of the audience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2021

Kandisha retains enough original DNA, alongside a smattering of Bustillo and Maury's trademark brutality to work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2021

Kandisha is just Bustillo and Maury keeping their genre sensibilities busy before when they are needed. Just a rehearsal before the big show, to phrase it differently.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2021

A memorable film, regardless of the (very few) flaws.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2021

Those looking for nothing more than 90 minutes of blood and guts may be satisfied with it on some very basic and fundamental level while everyone else will find themselves wishing that Bustillo and Maury had been able to conjure up a better movie.

| Jul 23, 2021

Maury and Bustillo opt for an ideological malleability ... allowing Kandisha to indulge in the trademarked shock value of their filmmaking without losing much relevance

| Jul 23, 2021