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The Surrender
Directed by
Julia Max
Not Rated
2025
1h 35m
Drama
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Horror
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5.4
85%
48%
5.9
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When the family patriarch dies, a grieving mother and daughter risk their lives to perform a brutal resurrection ritual and bring him back from the dead.
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Cast of The Surrender
Kate Burton
Barbara
Colby Minifie
Megan
Neil Sandilands
The Man
Vaughn Armstrong
Robert
Mia Ellis
Nikki
Pete Ploszek
Young Robert
Chelsea Alden
Young Barbara
Riley Rose Critchlow
Lacey
Lola Kelly
Alexa
Alaina Pollack
Young Megan
Judith Foster Thompson
Lost Soul
Richard B. Larimore
Lost Soul
Hal Perry
Lost Soul
LeAnne Fuller
Lost Soul
Sophia Konstantine Segal
Lost Soul
Bill Pryor
Lost Soul
Huyler
Lost Soul (uncredited)
Julia Max
Director / Writer
KW Campol
Associate Producer
Lovell Holder
Producer
The Surrender Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Claudia Puig
It's a very strong strong directorial debut... It's really fun to watch as an acting exercise, too.
Movie Madness Podcast
Erik Childress
The film is at its best when sticking within the real world where familial bonds and memories are tested. Colby Minifie meets the moment of the outlandish emotional demands of the situation which are not fully rewarded with the supernatural elements.
Movies and Munchies (YouTube)
Chris Joyce
[The Surrender will] sit with you for a while; it's haunting, it's got creep factor and is fun and violent in all the right spots.
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Sarah Vincent
It is a uniquely American movie about how people destroy themselves for an empty promise that only hastens death and despair instead of living authentically and being an adult without having it all.
People's World
Chauncey K. Robinson
It's an intimate story with broader social connections that stops all too short of diving into these social implications, settling instead on familiar territory, resulting in a compelling horror story that leaves some of its potential not fully realized.
Third Coast Review
Steven Prokopy
In the end, it's the way these two women get under each others' skin as only blood relatives can that propels and often props up this impressive first effort.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
"The Surrender" accomplishes a lot with a sketch-sized story and matching compositional agility and precision. It's short (less than 90 minutes!) and sweet and the best kind of upsetting.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
Once the supernatural gimmickry returns ... the story mostly puts an end to the character work it established and developed so well.
The Inlander (Spokane, WA)
Josh Bell
The stranger's elaborate rules and procedures don't amount to much, but the brutal emotional battle between mother and daughter lingers past the film's final perplexing image.
IGN Movies
Lena Wilson
The Surrender starts strong as a riveting tale of death and grief, but it peters out once things get spooky. If you want a great family drama, watch the first portion of this movie; if you want plodding supernatural horror, watch the second.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
"The Surrender" doesn't become a riveting chiller or a devastating understanding of grief, but it has some effective sequences when it remains closer to a human experience.
MaitlandOnMovies (Substack)
Maitland McDonagh
Dark family drama and horror aren't an unusual mix, since they're both steeped in intense emotions.... [W]hatever you expect from either genre, [filmmaker Julia Max] brings something distinctively weird and nightmarish.
AIPT
Nathaniel Muir
Both actors bring a natural feel to their characters that will make audiences feel for them both. The plot is over the top and gets more wild as things progress.
Collider
Shaina Weatherhead
A movie that's unafraid to take risks and lets its leads shine in a glaring spotlight, The Surrender occasionally falters in its pacing, but ultimately delivers a fraught family drama replete with gag-inducing body horror and a whole lot of blood.
AWFJ.org
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
The Surrender is a solid horror film, but where it truly excels is in its wholly singular, authentic and deeply empathetic portrait of palliative caregiving, which - as anyone who has ever done it knows - is a nightmare in and of itself
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Underneath the savage occult aspects of the story remains a constant exploration of what it means to see your loved ones as flawed, rounded humans, and ultimately as mortal.
Substream Magazine
Murjani Rawls
Who are children without their parents, and what is life after the loss of a long-term spouse? The answers to those questions are scary within themselves. It might just lead you down the path of doing the unthinkable.
Screen Zealots
Louisa Moore
Strikes the perfect tone for the kind of meaningful horror it's going for: a mix of the supernatural and a deeply personal story about grief and family.
Bloody Disgusting
Meagan Navarro
To grief interpreted in this way, a visceral, thrilling and high-stakes vision without ever dampening the complicated, messy, and unglamorous nature of loss, marks Max as one to watch.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Max has some intriguing ideas, but she's too willing to verbalize them with dialogue that sounds unnaturally intent on conveying theme instead of building character.
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