The Banished

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The Banished

2024

Directed by Joseph Sims-Dennett

Evil roams this land.

Grace has nowhere to turn when she finds herself lost in the wilderness with a dark presence threatening to consume her in this twisted folk horror.

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daggy 🦇
Review by daggy 🦇 ★★

one of this movie's biggest faults is the editing and its insistence on being as ambiguous as possible. there is a story underneath it all, but the nonlinear way it was told made me lose interest. to be honest, the first half could've been eliminated and there wouldn't have been a huge loss. and the ending...what the hell even was that.

thedayofthedot
Review by thedayofthedot ★★

Whenever I get lost in the woods I like to yell my own name to see if I can find me

RobynSummer
Review by RobynSummer ★½

Some excellent visuals, and a solid performance from Meg Clarke, are hindered by a boring and confusing story that lost me at the end.

Solomon Zivot
Review by Solomon Zivot ★★

Really wish the editing wasn’t trying to do dual timelines for the first 30-45 minutes,

silentluminary
Review by silentluminary ★½

Just your typical folk horror film that slow burns into nothing and doesn't explain anything

Bear
Review by Bear ★★★

Really dang solid lead, and they've got a real eye for capturing the ol forbidding beauty of nature.
A bit of 'lost in the woods' folk-flavored horror. Slow, not a ton of payoff, but has a few very spooky scenes. Flashlight beams illuminating dark woods with tiny glimpses of malevolent beings is just scary 9 times out of 10, any way you go about it.

Presented in a nonlinear back-and-forth storytelling format, that doesn't seem to be necessary, but sure.
Feels like it's really leading to something, but found the finale unsatisfying.
At the end of the day, it's an artfully made but drag-ass movie about, what else, generational trauma. There's a little more to it than that, but for…

MovieDudeAaron
Review by MovieDudeAaron ★

Halloween Marathon ‘25: Day 27

I’ve been waiting to watch this for soooo long and what a disappointment this was. I didn’t watch any trailers to keep myself sort of surprised to what was to come, so I only had the plot and the poster to go off of and it seems promising but what awaits is just… ehh. It takes a WHILE to get to the good stuff and when it actually does get good it starts getting really boring again trying to do stuff that might seem cool if executed better.

Jordon
Review by Jordon ★★★

-flashlight looking through dark trees will always be the most terrifying thing ever

-not everyone needs to shoot anamorphic

q&a with producer Raphael Sikic and actor Rasmus Toyra

Wilson
Review by Wilson ★★½

A wee bit too allusive for me. The shattered narrative style, with its flashing editing style repelled me, rather than brought me closer.

However, it does contain one distinct truism, don't go to the woods with a geography teacher and expect anything good to happen.

An Australian folk horror, with plenty of menace, but not a lot of understanding. It has some great walkie-talkie sound design, creepy woods by flashlight (presumably some Twin Peaks nods in the framing), and the general sense that the story is intriguing. You just have to fight the director to get to it.

As Kingsley said about Martin, stop “breaking the rules, buggering about with the reader, drawing attention to himself"