Synopsis
Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.
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Cast
- Katie AseltonAbbie
- Lake BellLou
- Kate BosworthSarah
- Will BouvierHenry
- Jay PaulsonDerek
- Anslem RichardsonAlex
- Carl K. Aselton IIIFisherman
Recommendations
- 75
IndieWire
Black Rock never reinvents the rules, but it understands them just well enough to make its bloodless stabs at ingenuity stand out. - 75
Slant Magazine
Layered conflicts mount as this lean film treks on, and they're not limited to gender politics. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Working from a ruthlessly efficient script by husband Mark Duplass, Aselton effortlessly sets up the women’s reunion scenario before effectively flipping the action from drama to thriller. - 67
The Playlist
Black Rock isn't going to become the sort of classic that "Deliverance" was, but if you like your scares smart, and like them to happen to people you actually care about, then Aselton's island of friendship and fury is a nice place to visit. - 60
Village Voice
The story and its violence are deeply silly, but there's something nervy and upsetting that distinguishes the film's incidental excitement. - 58
The A.V. Club
Ultimately, it’s hard to shake the sense that her picture is a character study bending itself, painfully and unnaturally, into the shape of a nightmare-in-the-boonies horror flick. Is this the only way films about female friendship can get greenlighted these days—by drenching themselves in genre tropes? - 40
Time Out
A soundtrack of churning rock songs by the Kills is as close as this misfire gets to authentic grrrl power, borrowed as it is. - 30
Film.com
The screenplay is far too obsessed with the setup, and not at all concerned with making the villains even the least bit believable or scary.
