Synopsis
On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events.
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Cast
- Emily BaldoniEm
- Maury SterlingKevin
- Nicholas BrendonMike
- Lorene ScafariaLee
- Elizabeth GracenBeth
- Hugo ArmstrongHugh
- Alex ManugianAmir
- Lauren MaherLaurie
- Kelly DonovanExtra
- Aqueela ZollExtra
Recommendations
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The Dissolve
Shot over five nights in a single location, and almost entirely improvised, Coherence is no-budget filmmaking at its most delectably inventive. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The wordy end product may be short on demons and murderous droids, yet Coherence is a satisfying and chilling addition to the ever-growing pal-ocalypse subgenre. - 83
The A.V. Club
The result is an uncommonly clever genre movie, reliant not on special effects — of which there are basically none — but on heavy doses of paranoia. - 75
Slant Magazine
The film's impression of personas is less traditionally sinister than representative of its inquiry into identity and what happens when social barriers begin to fall away. - 75
New York Post
Writer/director James Ward Byrkit, in his feature debut, achieves effective chills with only eight actors and a living room, intermixing quantum physics (shout-outs range from Schrödinger’s cat to “Sliding Doors”) with the very mundane human tendency toward bad judgment calls in a crisis. - 60
Time Out
For a sci-fi indie of vast ambition but limited means, Coherence does a sterling job with coherence. - 60
New York Daily News
Byrkit and his actors successfully build a sense of tension, and then dread, from what appears to be an extremely limited budget. Indeed, the movie was shot primarily in his own living room. - 58
The Playlist
It feels like this is a short film idea stretched to feature length, and the padding doesn't work.
