The creepy child genre hasn't had a movie this much fun in a long time.
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09/06/07
Joshua (2007)
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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:59
Rotten:36
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Though Joshua is ultimately too formulaic, its intelligence and suspenseful buildup heighten the overall creep factor.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Brad (Sam Rockwell) and Abby Cairn (Vera Farmiga) seem to have it all. A successful Manhattan couple living in a plush uptown apartment, they have just welcomed their second child into the... [More]
Starring: Jacob Kogan, Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston
Director: George Ratliff
Reviews for Joshua
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05/13/09
An absurd and unconvincing fright pic.
02/24/09
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10/18/08
The film is the ultimate birth control. If you plan on one day having kids, don't see this film. If you already have children, you will never look at them the same way again.
02/28/08
Ratliff never acknowledges that his audience has likely seen this setup dozens of times before, making the film feel laborious and unsurprising.
01/09/08
...a bewildering extension rather than a retread of this played-out subgenre.
01/08/08
As horror flicks go this is both smart and suspenseful.
01/03/08
The stress that mounts throughout this strangely tame and quietly spooky horror thriller has a masterfully palpable asphyxiating mood to it that the director exploits for maximum audience discomfort and unrelieved dread.
12/22/07
Sinister sibling-rivalry drama is majorly creepy.
10/22/07
The movie's eerie vibe is genuinely disturbing and difficult to shake off. That's a good thing in this genre.
09/26/07
Bad seed? The whole dang garden is rotten in 'Joshua,' a psychological horror film that demonstrates that the poison apple doesn't fall far from the toxic family tree.
08/31/07
Scenes that are meant to be scary end up generating laughs.
08/30/07
'Joshua': More than a 'horror film' - a staunchly unforgiving, thoroughly uncomproming look at how a child systematically ruins the lives of his parents
08/22/07
When the film falters, it's when it pulls its punches and gives us conventional horror that we can hold off at a safe distance, rather than uncomfortable insights that we can unsettlingly recognize from our own household experience.
08/10/07
The nerve-shattering ending will have you hugging your children when you get home - but only if there are witnesses present.
08/03/07
run-of-the-mill psychological thriller.
07/29/07
if you strip away all the meddling that Joshua does, it's clear to see the family is dysfunctionally psychopathic from the start
07/23/07
Father and mother no longer know best.
07/21/07
...certainly succeeds in bringing a fair amount of depth to an admittedly familiar storyline.
07/20/07
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