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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckDisplaying a rare inventiveness and technical facility in this increasingly tired, cliché-ridden format, Afflicted delivers a genuinely suspenseful ride while making you wonder how its more elaborate effects were achieved on its obviously low budget.
- 68Film.comFilm.comAfflicted is an exciting, adept and smartly skillful debut horror film.
- 60The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloWhile what will happen next is never especially interesting, how it will happen, and from what unusual angle, generates enough excitement to keep things intermittently lively.
- 60VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangA low-budget horror-thriller that’s resourceful enough to wring a few fresh chills from a slender premise and a less-than-novel formal conceit.
- The gradual ramping up of both the camera calisthenics and the gore quotient suggests a movie that’s been very deliberately paced, but that doesn’t mean that Afflicted really gets anywhere, except back to the very basics its state-of-the-art presentation is supposed to transcend.
- 50RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsUnfortunately, Afflicted is as emotionally involving as a really accomplished special-effects sizzle reel.