Synopsis
Chronically agoraphobic since the day his wife was murdered, Tommy Cowley finds himself terrorized by a gang of syringe-wielding feral children, who are intent on taking his baby daughter. Upon discovering the nightmarish truth surrounding these hooded children, he learns that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place he fears the most - the abandoned tower block, known as the Citadel.
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Cast
- James CosmoPriest
- Aneurin BarnardTommy
- Amy ShielsJoanne
- Wunmi MosakuMarie
- Jake WilsonDanny
- Ian HanmoreCouncil Office Clerk
- Ingrid CraigieDr. Kelly
- Chris HegartyFeral Child
- Pete MurphyParamedic
- Matthew WorkmanFeral Child Chained
Recommendations
- 83
The A.V. Club
Citadel is plenty scary: a bare-bones man-against-his-worst-fears white knuckler, shot through deep, menacing shadows. - 75
Slant Magazine
Citadel is stripped down and no-nonsense, fixating on Tommy's emotional and psychological struggles with an intensity that's harrowing. - 75
Charlotte Observer
I think Foy simply wants to deliver well-gauged terror and make a few points about personal responsibility and the need to overcome our fears. That he does quite well. - 70
Variety
Writer-director Ciaran Foy skillfully taps into primal fears and urban paranoia to keep his audience consistently unsettled in Citadel, an intensely suspenseful horror-thriller. - 60
Time Out
The more that fright-flick conventions take over, the more the movie's recognizable and resonant human fears are dulled. - 60
The New York Times
This spare first feature from the Irish filmmaker Ciaran Foy (drawing on his own experiences) has an atavistic pulse, evoking a decaying society where elevators fail and bus drivers cower behind mesh grills. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
A dispiriting horror cheapie whose monsters-in-the-projects premise plays out like an anti-welfare parable. - 50
Los Angeles Times
The feature debut from Irish writer-director Ciarán Foy, Citadel attempts to transform mundane anxieties into the stuff of a horror film. But the initial tension of the premise dissipates like a slow leak.
