This is a movie that creates fear out of creepy moments and by playing on the natural desire of wanting to feel safe with family. There's no need for blood or excessive acts of violence when the scares are this unsettling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2018

Skiles's film doesn't care so much if you think you know how it ends, even if you're right. It's all about twisting the knife in the process of confirming those fears.

| Nov 16, 2018

As good as Plummer and McDermott are here, [writer Christopher D. Ford] ultimately writes himself into a corner that requires actions in the final act that don't ring true.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 16, 2018

Unlike so many recent horror movies, The Clovehitch Killer is patient with its thrills, almost excruciatingly so.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 16, 2018

An excellent McDermott embodies Don with just enough strangeness to keep audiences from knowing precisely where The Clovehitch Killer is heading.

| Nov 15, 2018

McDermott is admirably unsettling, and Luke McCoubrey's artfully sterile cinematography adds an air of suffocating wholesomeness that can make you squirm.

| Nov 15, 2018

First-time feature director Duncan Skiles brings some spooky atmosphere to a smart script by Christopher Ford.

| Nov 14, 2018

Offers an intriguing perspective on the darker side of American values, but lacks the conviction to entirely expose the cultural contradictions that often enable compulsive murderers.

| Sep 28, 2018

This atypical serial-killer thriller distinguishes itself in resisting thrills - let alone any actual violence - till well past its halfway point...

| Sep 27, 2018