Synopsis
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Jonathan FrenchIsaac
- Leila SykesOlga
- Ben CaplanMoe Barrett
- Conor DwaneOlga's Dad
- Inma PavonOlga's Mother
- 75
RogerEbert.com
Caveat is a masterpiece of understatement for a title, and a witty opener to Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, an impressive and often terrifying film, taking place almost solely in one location, with two people trapped in a moldy dimly-lit house. - 68
Paste Magazine
With a tight 87-minute runtime, Caveat would have made for a perfectly lean chiller had it opted to maximize the claustrophobia inherent in literally chaining the viewer to one terrifying location for the entirety of the film. - 67
IndieWire
Caveat exists in a liminal space between genres, which is fitting for a film about the skeletons that might hide inside the walls of an old house. However, Mc Carthy’s mix-and-match approach reveals the story’s need for a more solid foundation. - 60
The Guardian
The final endgame is a little unsatisfying, but this is a very interesting debut for McCarthy. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Caveat is like a gothic horror tone poem, with pungent notes of decay. - 58
The Film Stage
The visuals ooze creepiness, even if the payoff doesn’t arrive until the very end. - 50
Variety
Mc Carthy serves up a generically foreboding premise and pulls off several efficiently traditional jump scares in this variation on a haunted-house formula, but it’s the shape-shifting mind games of his own narrative that most unnerve the viewer, as seemingly fixed plot points of who is under threat — and when, and why, and so on — keep darting out of sight.