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The Parenting
Directed by
Craig Johnson
R
2025
1h 34m
Comedy
,
Horror
5.7
49%
84%
6.0
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A couple rents a countryside house for a weekend with their parents and then discover it's inhabited by a 400-year-old poltergeist.
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Cast of The Parenting
Brandon Flynn
Josh
Nik Dodani
Rohan
Brian Cox
Frank
Edie Falco
Sharon
Lisa Kudrow
Liddy
Dean Norris
Cliff
Vivian Bang
Sara
Parker Posey
Brenda
Kate Avallone
Donna
Elle Kaye
Zombie Donna
Chloe Sciore
Allie
Keith R. Beck
Zombie Jamie
Johnny Hawe
Jamie
McKhelen Alcindor
Dancer (uncredited)
Evonne Archer
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Peter Brownlee
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Brendan Edwards
Bartender (uncredited)
Heidi Garza
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Bhanu Gopal
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Josh Habib
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
The Parenting Ratings & Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Director Craig Johnson gives up the ghost of a promise the movie had going for it.
Fish Jelly Films (YouTube)
Nicholas Bell
Despite being well worth seeing for its formidable ensemble of seasoned actors, The Parenting lacks both subtext and perspective to elevate itself beyond being merely a familiar, inherently basic comedy-horror exercise which ends up hemorrhaging itself...
Common Sense Media
Jennifer Green
This horror comedy has both scares and laughs-or at least eye rolls-but it's hard not to feel that its stellar cast is squandered.
Tell-Tale TV
Chris Gallardo
Even with its off-the-beat humor and familiar family comeuppances, The Parenting provides enough charm, laughs, and ghastly nonsense to make it an entertaining movie.
Decider
John Serba
It's a dysfunctional mishmash of stuff that makes us laugh in fits and starts, which isn't often enough.
Horror Queers Podcast
Trace Thurman
The story is slight but the laughs are genuine in Craig Robinson's The Parenting. That it all works as well as it does is mostly thanks to a very game cast of talented actors.
Horror Queers Podcast
Joe Lipsett
There's a sketch comedy vibe to the film (credit or blame writer Kent Sublette's work on SNL), but the ensemble cast is stacked. Stand-out is Flynn, who displays surprisingly great comedic chops. Fans of Summoning Sylvia or Slay will enjoy this
Culturess
Lisa Laman
What started with so much promise ends in lots of artifice and even forgetting what genre The Parenting inhabits.
Fish Jelly Films (YouTube)
Joseph Robinson
This quintet of veteran actors aren't enough to make the beyond basic storyline, lame jokes, and questionable effects serviceable.
IndieWire
Vikram Murthi
The ostensibly heartfelt scenes where characters apologize for their behavior or stand up for themselves never display an ounce of emotional potency because no one resembles a real person.
New York Times
Calum Marsh
The cast is game, but the script, by a "Saturday Night Live" writer, Kent Sublette, is puerile and abrasive, lacking the wit of "Evil Dead" and the brio of "Scary Movie."
RogerEbert.com
Nell Minow
Director Craig Johnson and screenwriter Kent Sublette ("Saturday Night Live") find a nice balance for the boo-surprises, creepiness, and humor, with a resolution that brings everything and everyone together.
Paste Magazine
Jim Vorel
Craig Johnson's The Parenting feels like a movie of convenience-one that will lean on the recognizable names and faces for all they're worth, to distract from a weak screenplay, irritating performances and tepid horror bona fides.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
[T]he movie is too broad to work as a horror satire or parody.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
[The Parenting] is low on genuine scares, but it does boast an appealing cast, whose comic chops elevate the flick slightly above the standard streamer slush.
Movies and Munchies (YouTube)
Chris Joyce
The Parenting takes a bit to get going, but once the actors all come together, laughs come easily thanks to witty and expertly delivered comedy. This is great for a casual watch, that should put a smile on your face and maybe a bit of bile in your mouth.
TheWrap
William Bibbiani
This film's energy couldn't power an electric toothbrush.
But Why Tho?
Jason Flatt
Don't expect too much from The Parenting as far as characters or plot, but if you're looking to be mildly entertained watching star actors give an outsized effort, this movie has it in spades.
Collider
Luna Guthrie
It's unlikely to go down in film history as a modern classic of comedy, but The Parenting offers a really solid, easy, and enjoyable 90 minutes of laughs, with ghosts and '80s nostalgia thrown in for good measure.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A dismal misfire that strains to meld Meet the Parents-style comedy with The Exorcist-grade horror.
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