Wright’s visual style feels less realistic, more timeless – like a Grimm fairytale – with a blood-red sky and lush, green backdrop for an exploration of multiple themes: fragile masculinity, British colonialism’s effect on the Irish

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 25, 2024

The prosthetics combined with low-budget visual effects don't always blend in smoothly with every scene but still offer a B film charm that aptly aligns with the feature’s comical tone.

| Jul 25, 2023

Unwelcome is confused about the sort of movie it wants to be. Is it a culture-shock allegory with a tacked-on folk-horror motif? Or does it simply want to add its two cents to the age-old question, “Who’s the real monster here?”

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 23, 2023

When the film is building up to its Straw Goblins confrontation it is a welcome reprieve from the standard new homeowner with a monster problem genre. However it outstays its welcome with an unnecessary and lengthy epilogue well after its vengeful climax.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2023

Horror-comedy takes home invasion genre to new, delirious levels.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2023

A bloody, creepy, and often funny (perhaps unintentionally) genre film that turns the idyllic dream of life in the Irish countryside upside down with a wicked take on local folklore.

| Jun 12, 2023

By the time Unwelcome finally seems to have decided on comedy – a mode which does, to be fair, work well – it’s too late. The film feels entrenched.

| Jun 4, 2023

Unwelcome plays with home invasion genre tropes without avoiding the most uncomfortable moments, yet, at the same time it does so from a comedic standpoint... [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 28, 2023

Despite the spirited filmmaking, keen performances (especially by John-Kamen, Meany, and Nairn), and rich Irish atmosphere, it's ultimately pretty clear how 'Unwelcome' is going to unfold.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 7, 2023

Unwelcome will work its way into your heart, one tiny stab wound at a time.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 27, 2023

The folklore is intriguing but isn’t explained enough to create a true sense of terror or dread, and when we get to the climax, everything seems to go off the rails and descend into ridiculousness rather than anything scary or unsettling.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 24, 2023

This Irish horror film suffers from a lack of direction and sluggish pacing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2023

The movie always looks fun, even when it’s shredding the nerves of its characters and audience.

| Mar 21, 2023

Neither funny nor particularly scary, the film presents a tonally uneven experience with gritty home-invasion violence on the one hand and kooky creatures taken far too seriously on the other.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2023

The Brits are the heroes and, in a movie set in Ireland that uses our mythology as a paper-thin backdrop for meaningless violence, this is a cardinal sin.

| Mar 15, 2023

It’s the sort of tale that might be told over a few pints at the local pub, leaving the listeners skeptical, but still looking over their shoulders on the way home.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2023

Filled with Celtic malarkey, horror pic terror and creepy comedy.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 14, 2023

Unwelcome maintains a balanced tone amidst its growing insanity.

| Original Score: B | Mar 13, 2023

There is plenty of good, but no one wants to watch a movie that feels like it is one to two drafts away from being a better supernatural horror.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 11, 2023

Unwelcome works as a decent horror film in general, but with St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, it takes on a new vibrancy of success.

| Mar 10, 2023