For those who can bear the devastation, Grashaw’s steadfast direction delivers a complex and powerful payoff. It’s a haunting waking nightmare that seeps into the soul.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2024

What Josiah Saw is a slow-burn psychological thriller in which the story is spread out to reveal what is underneath the terrible lives of the Graham siblings.

| Jul 20, 2023

There’s absolutely nothing charming or pleasant in this bleak slow-burner, and what remains is both shocking and creepy-crawly enough to make us remember it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

A gloomy horror focused on dark family secrets.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The premise and framing of What Josiah Saw is clever and may offer something different for Shudder viewers as it’s beautifully shot with great performances all round.

| Aug 10, 2022

This is a difficult and disturbing horror of the Southern gothic school.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2022

Vincent Grashaw‘s self-contained chiller continually subverts our expectations with a brutal eeriness that’s likely to divide its audience between those who are enveloped by its slow burn mentality and those who prefer their horrors far less subtle.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 10, 2022

Pure, raw, undiluted American Gothic with all the trimmings. Here is a vibe, a voice, a style and a mood, all of a piece, managing to wear its influences proudly yet roll them into something original and fresh.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 9, 2022

The dark screenplay, arresting performances, shifting tones, and suffocating Southern Gothic atmosphere render What Josiah Saw more than worth seeing

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 9, 2022

Dilts and Grashaw build out 鈥淲hat Josiah Saw鈥� thoughtfully, letting the dread from one story bleed into the next, until everything is covered in a dark, dark stain.

| Aug 8, 2022

What Josiah Saw weaves a multi-faceted tale of trauma that reaches far in its scope. It comes as a disappointment, then, that it sacrifices its sombre tone for cheap blockbuster thrills

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2022

There was one twist too many for me. But the performances are excellent, the dialogue is sharp and director Vincent Grashaw ties his very different tales together with a consistently menacing tone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2022

The family trauma is so clotted-thick, a faster pace and tightened-up editing might have eradicated the slow-motion underwater feel of the whole.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 4, 2022

The film’s inertia reveals it for what it truly is: A meditation on religious trauma and Christian guilt.

| Original Score: 7.2/10 | Aug 4, 2022

While perhaps requiring a tighter edit, What Josiah Saw is nevertheless an effectively unsettling, often uncomfortable watch, and the tense, shocking finale will linger long after the film is over.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2022

What Josiah Saw is not concerned with making anyone feel good. It is rooted in the horror based around sins of the parents and can be an extremely troubling watch. It is unafraid to pull off scabs to show the ugly scars that people carry with them.

| Aug 4, 2022

The blood-and-thunder atmospherics arestrikingly potent, in both visual and sonic design terms, and the performances strong.

| Aug 3, 2022

An episodic slog through vaguely ominous scenarios that mostly don't amount to anything.

| Aug 3, 2022

As it picks its way through the rubble of the characters’ lives, it stumbles upon something profoundly honest yet deeply disconcerting underneath the horror.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 3, 2022

It has a stubborn, almost literary feel for character that accumulates a baleful momentum by the time the finale hits.

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