Synopsis
In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
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Cast
- Dan StevensThomas Richardson
- Michael SheenMalcolm Howe
- Lucy BoyntonAndrea
- Mark Lewis JonesQuinn
- Bill MilnerJeremy
- Kristine FrosethFfion
- Paul HigginsFrank
- Richard ElfynCharles
- Catrin AaronElaine
- John WeldonLonely Passenger
Recommendations
- 83
The Film Stage
Evans lets his freak flag billow gloriously in the cinematic wind; leaning into the perverse nature of his work, he fixates on tension and dread to craft a compelling journey enveloped in lunacy. - 82
IGN
With Apostle, Gareth Evans has proven he can not only master action films with stunning choreography, but he can also deliver a bone-chilling folk horror tale rich in mythology and shocking in violence. Apostle owes a lot to classic folk horror films, but Evans manages to make his film feel fresh and gripping enough to satisfy even the most blood-thirsty horror fan. - 80
The Guardian
Polarizing yet undeniably fascinating, the bait-and-switch horror film lures its viewer into a false sense of terrified security before pouncing in an anything-goes frenzy, and Evans’s latest is a prime specimen. - 70
We Got This Covered
Gareth Evans’ Apostle is The Wicker Man, Safe Haven and Silent Hill thrown into a boil that bubbles over during a ruthless third act that certainly delivers if you have the patience. - 67
The A.V. Club
The film introduces interesting themes as though they’ll build to something, only to let them spill out like so much viscera from an especially nasty wound. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Netflix feels like a proper home for a film this idiosyncratic. After all, you’ll know within 30 minutes stumbling onto it whether you want to keep following its unsettling descent into blood-soaked madness or pick up your remote and head over to the relatively sunnier and safer comforts of "Broadchurch." - 60
ScreenCrush
Apostle is a solid mystery-thriller, but save for predictably engaging performances from Stevens and Sheen, it’s largely unremarkable. Though it’s interesting to see Evans tackle something a little more conventional, this feels almost too conventional for the man who gave us The Raid and its sequel. - 50
IndieWire
By the time Apostle arrives at its big reveal, the movie has veered off on so many tangled pathways that the ending can’t resolve them all. Instead, it provides a single, ethereal image that hints at the more imaginative possibilities lurking somewhere inside this bloody mess.
