SummaryTwo parents receive a distressing late-night call from their teenage daughter, who has just accidentally hit a pedestrian. They jump in their car, racing to get there before anyone else stumbles across the scene. As they head deeper into the night, disturbing revelations threaten to tear the family apart as they soon realize they might not be the... Read More
Directed By:Babak Anvari
Written By:William Gillies
Hallow Road
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Generally Favorable
69
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Mixed or Average
6.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
74% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
21% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Mar 12, 2025
90
With its dramatic themes spread across two wildly different halves, it makes for a unique, propulsive thrill ride whose baffling existence is key to its enjoyment.
May 16, 2025
80
This Hallow Road is paved with brilliant performances, a smart, unpredictable script, and tight, precise direction from Anvari. An unsettling ride worth taking.
May 15, 2025
80
This is a really exhilarating, disturbing picture which foregrounds excellent writing and performances.
Mar 12, 2025
80
Anvari’s movie strikes a keen balance between psychological thriller and eerie folkloric horror. Its disturbing ambiguities take on whole new shadings after an unexpected reveal in the end credits.
Mar 12, 2025
75
Hallow Road really thrives when at its most simple. Sticking with Pike and Rhys in a simple windshield shot, cutting only to other tight, static angles from inside the car, allows the pair to carry the film.
Mar 13, 2025
60
Performances are the spectacle, and both actors do a tremendous job translating the worst feeling any parent can experience. It all depends on your patience for slow-burn horrors, and if there's enough nightmare fuel to stay along for the ride.
Oct 31, 2025
38
Hallow Road is an earnest attempt to make a movie no one has seen before, only to end up with one few will want to watch again.
User score
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43% Positive
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43% Mixed
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14% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Oct 31, 2025
8
"Hallow Road" is a sensationally scary thriller not only for the surprises it packs but also for the metaphor it makes about parenting. The chills are more in the journey than the destination in this taut and tightly wound thriller from director Babak Anvari (Under the Skin) about tragic actions, consequences, and parental responsibilities. Conceptually simple yet narratively ambitious, the twisty film relies on its two performances to maintain suspense as it rolls toward a provocative ambiguous resolution.
Production Company:
- London Film & TV
- Two & Two Pictures
- Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland
- Hail Mary Pictures
- IPR.VC
- XYZ Films
Release Date:Oct 31, 2025
Duration:1 h 20 m
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Awards
Austin Film Critics Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
