It is a sensational piece of genre subterfuge, the narrative an increasingly byzantine maze overflowing in deft twists and turns.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2018

There are reminders here - as there were in the recent Irish horror The Lodgers - that the haunted house movie still contains possibilities. Neither will it, however, keep you awake at night like The Orphanage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2018

Sergio G. Sánchez struggles to locate the frights, with underwritten characters draining his shocks of their emotional payoff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2018

A retro chiller with positively no new or interesting moves.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2018

This distinctively terrible film is a hideous hotchpotch of shouty overacting and muddled storytelling, unable to make up its mind if it's a family drama, a supernatural chiller or a psychological mystery.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 13, 2018

The direction by Sergio G Sánchez is uneven, the narrative consistently illogical...and the final "twist" visible from early in the first act. Disappointing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2018

Consider the Marrowbone glass to be either half-empty of potent horror, or half-full of everything else it's got going for it - a decent glug, stylistically speaking, but not quite enough.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2018

Story-wise, Marrowbone may not add up but this is a lyrical and chilly affair in similar vein to other recent Spanish-made horror pictures in which atmosphere is always foregrounded at the expense of plot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2018

A solid rather than spectacular creepshow thriller that would have benefited from Sánchez employing a few more original ideas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2018

Its particular flavor of elaborate, genteel nightmare is unusual, but it's as effective as any jump-scare-laden, blood-spattered slasher.

| Apr 19, 2018

Marrowbone is proof that with a strong sense of place and characters an audience cares about, you can make a good horror movie without games, gimmicks, or even much narrative coherence.

| Apr 14, 2018

An incessant deluge of subplots drowns what could have been a sparse and beautiful ghost story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2018

Seek out Marrowbone, and give yourself the chance to sink into Sánchez's soulful and scary love story.

| Apr 9, 2018

In the end, all the creaky floorboards and crackly old-vinyl recordings of 1940s ballads in the world, can't obscure the fact that the most haunting things about "Marrowbone" are the ghosts of all the better movies it fleetingly resembles.

| Original Score: C | Sep 28, 2017

A few brushes with satisfactory filmmaking craft is a moot thing to champion in a film this mucked up.

| Sep 20, 2017

Powerfully frustrating, undone by an ornate storytelling style in which twists only beget more twists, all in service of some fairly obvious observations about guilt, self-deception and devotion.

| Sep 15, 2017

Scary enough to please most genre buffs, it would also play well in art houses: If you were to go through and remove every hint of ghosts, you'd still have a drama well worth seeing.

| Sep 15, 2017