Kristy

When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwit them and fight back.

Genre: Horror / Thriller
Release Year: 2014
Director: Olly Blackburn
Writer(s): Anthony Jaswinski

Awards & Festivals

Official Selection

2014 London Film Festival

Critic Reviews

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MOVIEPILOT

Guaranteed to shred your nerves at a rapid pace

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The Dull Wood Experiment

Unnerving, gripping and rewarding in equal measure, Kristy is a step up from other movies of a similar nature

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Grizzly Bomb

Could this be the next cult horror hit?

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Michael Blyth, BFI

Haley Bennett infuses Justine with the strength and ingenuity to forever ensure her place in final girl history.

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Horror Focus

This is 2014's biggest and baddest dark horse that the genre have had in years.

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Anton Bitell, Sight & Sound

This follow-up to Blackburn's Donkey Punch is beautifully shot, and sets its stalk-and-dash material within the context of contemporary online anomie and a broader debate about chance versus causality

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Ryan Gilbey, The New Statesman

A pervasive sense of dread and a use of DIY tinfoil masks that will make it a perennial Hallowe’en party favourite to rank alongside Friday the 13th and Scream