The Last Thing Mary Saw is watchable and even intriguing when it aims for twisted horror… However, it is also a little confused as to what kind of horror it wants to showcase and – crucially – fails to be scary enough.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2024

The Last Thing Mary Saw unleashes an interesting and powerful concept and themes that use fear-based experiments as a form to correct sexual desires and the kinds of immorality that faith believers can introduce.

| Jul 21, 2023

The Last Thing Mary Saw finishes with a bang. With a strong ensemble cast, a riveting second and third act, and an atmosphere rich in mystery and dread, how can you go wrong?

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 22, 2023

Though it raises far more questions than it has answers for, the answer to the film’s title is as satisfying as it is devastating; a perfect solution for a dread-soaked slow burn about queer love in the face of fear and prejudice.

| Dec 17, 2022

The Last Thing Mary Saw isn’t a bad movie but I just wish the same amount of love and attention that was put into the first two-thirds of the film was put into the end to make it well-rounded.

| Sep 13, 2022

Directorwriter Edoardo Vitaletti, in his feature debut, announces himself as a great visual stylist and wonderful director of actors. Unabashedly queer and crafted with expert artistry, The Last Thing Mary Saw is a must for horror fans.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2022

"Obvious in its themes but grimly oblique in its proximity to menace, perhaps the most important lesson the movie took from 'The Witch' is that folk horror need not be outwardly terrifying in order to be unsettling as hell."

| Feb 19, 2022

While it does struggle to gain its footing in the beginning, The Last Thing Mary Saw still presents an intriguing and twisted look at the judgments of others against the need and want of ones true self.

| Feb 11, 2022

It's certainly not what anyone would call a lighthearted romp, but the movie is at its best when focused on Mary and Eleanor as they try to survive a drab reality in which their love is viewed by those around them as the workings of Lucifer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2022

It has themes that always work at giving me goosebumps, from family dogma, a haunting presence in rooms, and the terror that exists in a folk horror setting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2022

The stylization works really well with the core themes of this story.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 29, 2022

It's a love story drained of passion, trudging towards a bleak ending that's never earned.

| Jan 27, 2022

Considering that religious fundamentalists continue to persecute gay people, it's shortsighted to present a story like The Last Thing Mary Saw with such little concern for the current real-life ramifications of being queer.

| Jan 25, 2022

The Last Thing Mary Saw could've been a gripping queer horror about religious oppression, but is sadly limited by its humdrum and unconvincing plot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2022

It has a you-are-there feeling that's unusual in low-budget period pictures.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2022

"The Last Thing Mary Saw" is as surprising as it is frustrating.

| Jan 20, 2022

First time director Edoardo Vitaletti calibrates each scene, including a long, virtually silent middle section, for maximum discomfort.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2022

This new frightener from writer/director Edoardo Vitaletti is an effective and haunting chamber piece. It does fall short of greatness, however, by sacrificing deeper character development in favor of mood and style.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 20, 2022

I’ll be curious to see what Vitaletti does next, but he might want to consider finding some better scripts to direct rather than writing his own.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 19, 2022

The Last Thing Mary Saw feels restrained by its means-unable to emphasize its ultimate payoffs-and beholden to a tiptoe pace that won't ensnare all audiences.

| Original Score: 6.0/10 | Jan 19, 2022