The Surrender is a 2025 Canadian supernatural horror film written and directed by Julia Max, starring Colby Minifie and Kate Burton.
Premise Robert, a family patriarch, is ill and bedridden, and is looked after by his wife Barbara and daughter Megan. After Robert dies, Barbara enlists the help of a mysterious figure to bring Robert back to life by means of an occult ritual.
Cast Colby Minifie as Megan Alaina Pollack as Young Megan Kate Burton as Barbara Chelsea Alden as Young Barbara Vaughn Armstrong as Robert Pete Ploszek as Young Robert Riley Rose Critchlow as Lacey Mia Ellis as Nikki Neil Sandilands as The Man
Release The Surrender was released in the United States on March 9, 2025 at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival.https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/films/2206372
Reception Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
Simon Abrams, writing for RogerEbert.com, gave the movie 3 stars out of 4, praising the performances and calling it "an eerie and accomplished gut-muncher that also happens to have grief and mother-daughter trauma on its mind." Shaina Weatherhead, writing for Collider, said that the film is "unafraid to take risks" and "ultimately delivers a fraught family drama replete with gag-inducing body horror and a whole lot of blood."
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