Synopsis
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
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Cast
- Jules WillcoxJessica
- Marc MenchacaMan
- Anthony HealdRobert
- Jonathan RosenthalEric
- Katie O’GradyOfficer (voice)
- Betty MoyerMom (voice)
- Shelly LipkinDad (voice)
- Emily SahlerCatherine (voice)
- Laura DuynLittle Girl (voice)
- Brenton Montgomery911 Operator (voice)
Recommendations
- 83
Consequence
Alone is exactly what it sells — a taut, hot-wired survival thriller. With its gaunt storytelling, meaty characters, and high-stakes action, the film delivers on all fronts. - 80
Variety
Accomplished in all its tech and design departments, Alone is easily the best of several recent hunted-woman-in-the-wilderness films, including fellow indies “Ravage” and “Range Runners” as well as the flashier French “Revenge.” It doesn’t necessarily need the structural gimmickry of onscreen “chapter” titles (“The Road,” “The Rain,” etc.), but that’s a minor quibble. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Alone proves a highly effective genre exercise. - 75
Slant Magazine
John Hyams’s film refutes the frenetic clichés of so modern American thrillers. - 75
The A.V. Club
There’s something deeply appealing about an already stripped-down cat-and-mouse scenario that becomes dirtier and more elemental as it goes along, tracing a devolutionary arc from the rules of the road to primeval combat. - 70
The New York Times
This minimalist survival thriller unfolds with such elegant simplicity and single-minded momentum that its irritations are easily excused. - 67
Austin Chronicle
The sense of true wilderness is amplified by sound mixers Morgan Hobart and Brian Mazzola, who deploy bug rattles and rain splatters like weapons, building in the diegetic sound of nature so that the odd moments of silence are truly oppressive and menacing. - 63
Movie Nation
Alone still takes a simple premise and smacks us around with it for 95 reasonably suspenseful, thrilling minutes. And that’s enough.
