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The Front Room
Directed by
Max Eggers
,
Sam Eggers
R
2024
1h 35m
Horror
,
Thriller
4.6
40%
42%
5.0
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It tells the story of a newly pregnant couple who are forced to take in an ailing, estranged stepmother.
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Cast of The Front Room
Brandy Norwood
Belinda
Andrew Burnap
Norman
Kathryn Hunter
Solange
Neal Huff
Pastor Lewis
David Manis
Old Man
Mary Catherine Wright
Old Woman
Ellen J. Maddow
2nd Old Woman
Mary Testa
Mary
Morgen McKynzie
Student
Kerry Flanagan
Dr. Rayne
Wendy Heagy
Administrator (voice)
Rueby Wray
One Year Old Laurie
Chasity Orr
Baby Laurie
Charlize Orr
Baby Laurie
Scottie DiGiacomo
Interviewer #1
Toree Hill
Church Woman (uncredited)
Desi Ramos
College Student (uncredited)
Max Eggers
Director / Screenplay
Sam Eggers
Director / Screenplay
Julia Oh
Producer
The Front Room Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Carlos Aguilar
The perverse playfulness with which Hunter handles even the most grotesque scatological scenes fuels a disturbing yet stellar performance, one that's far more memorable than the movie as a whole.
Keith & the Movies
Keith Garlington
It never takes its cool ideas far enough which leaves us impressed by the course it sets for itself but annoyed by its inability to get where it's going.
Creepy Kingdom
Shannon McGrew
THE FRONT ROOM is an audacious debut from the Eggers Brothers. While it struggles to find a steady footing and doesn't hit every note it aims for, credit must be given where it's due - they really swing for the fences.
Everything's Interesting
Eric Langberg
This movie is a hoot if you key in to the fact that its actual genre isn't arthouse but Grand Dame Guignol. It's like if Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? was about a younger woman taking care of Bette Davis ... It's camp.
RogerEbert.com
Peyton Robinson
The premise proposes a battle of wits and control via a brewing storm between the two leads that never really comes to pass.
Daily Dead
Matt Donato
Newton's simply too undeniable in her role, coupled with the film's striking composition.
Variety
Tomris Laffly
A mean-spirited hagsploitation movie, neither scary nor funny. "The Front Room" just puts your gag reflexes to test by humiliating an old body, and tries to get away with it by making the owner of that body an actually awful mother-in-law from hell.
People's World
Chauncey K. Robinson
The use of terrifying imagery is interwoven within a story about a Black woman's dangerous journey in defining her womanhood. The result is a wild movie ride that leans into bold and explosive scenes while still telling an intimate and relevant story.
Fort Worth Weekly
Kristian M. Lin
Brandy manages to hold her own against the fire-breathing white supremacist dragon opposite her.
Inverse
Lyvie Scott
Its sparse story is in dire need of divine reinvention, and not even its brilliant central performance can truly save it.
AV Club
Elijah Gonzalez
While The Front Room has a couple of blessings in a big performance from Kathryn Hunter and a handful of well-presented shots, none of it coalesces in any meaningful way, and it ends so quickly that it feels like a crucial 15 minutes of footage got lost.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
The tone of The Front Room indecisively rests somewhere between comedy and horror.
TheWrap
William Bibbiani
The Eggers Brothers have a canny way of balancing those wildly different tones. We're frightened for each character, even when we point and giggle at them. It's a twisted film.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
[Max and Sam Eggers] did draw out some good performances, with Norwood hanging tough with a couple of accomplished theater-trained pros in Hunter and Burnap. Still, that's not enough to make "The Front Room" worth the trade-off.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"The Front Room" does at least have farting in common with the family's oeuvre.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Yet from its goo to boos, the whole enterprise is so familiar and at times rote that it feels as though Sam and Max Eggers haven't so much directed the movie as reverse-engineered it.
Mashable
Kimber Myers
The Eggers' movie hinges on that wonderfully unhinged performance from Hunter, and The Front Room is extremely, admirably gross with a hefty dose of camp. Unfortunately, that's all there is here.
The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Lowe
The Front Room perhaps leans more toward the repulsive than the highbrow, potentially carving out its own distinct genre niche.
IndieWire
Alison Foreman
The Front Room seems to know it's a tonal disaster, but maybe there's no point to being tidy when you're just screwing around with your audience's gag reflex.
Slant Magazine
Rocco T. Thompson
It mixes light surrealism and gross-out humor for a blackly comic, ill-mannered romp whose parts are ultimately more compelling than the arthritic whole.
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