Adam ives a lonely existence in a cabin in a desolate forest, checking Deer Cam feeds on his computer and occasionally receiving visits from his brother Pete. Another family member looms large in his life: his grandmother "Nani", who has long been a receptor for a spirit she calls Sator.... (Full plot summary below)
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Adam ives a lonely existence in a cabin in a desolate forest, checking Deer Cam feeds on his computer and occasionally receiving visits from his brother Pete. Another family member looms large in his life: his grandmother "Nani", who has long been a receptor for a spirit she calls Sator.
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| Original-CinJim SlotekA masterpiece of squeamishly uneasy, nightmarish mood-making, the demonic-possession film, Sator is partly in the vein of The Blair Witch Project – though much more sure-handed and stylistically sophisticated. |
| Paste MagazineJacob OllerSator’s dedication to its own nuanced premise, location and tense pace make it the rare horror that’s so aesthetically well-realized you feel like you could crawl inside and live there—if it wasn’t so goddamn scary. |
| The A.V. ClubAnya StanleySator is an effective exercise in what the horror genre does best, underscoring awful truths—in this case, dementia and generational trauma—by making them explicitly monstrous. What Graham understands is that there are few things scarier than the ultimate fragility of the human brain and everything contained within |
| SlashfilmChris EvangelistaThere’s a lot to love here; searing heretic cinematography included, as long as you’re a fan of horror flicks that *love* taking their damn time. It’s emotionally invasive, disturbing, and brutally unforgiving once Sator’s presence takes hold. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyAnyone can pull off a jump scare or three. Graham immediately manages the considerably more difficult task of conjuring a mood of general dread, suffusing ordinary settings with supernatural unease. |
| The GuardianLeslie FelperinGraham uses darkness and a very sparse score/soundscape to create a truly disturbing work that relies not so much on gore as the uncanny in its most potent form: stillness, pools of darkness and just-visible figures. |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerIt's a film that you absorb, until it slithers around and engulfs you. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakEverything has a purpose, from the deer whistle to a clearing of bleached white skulls, as modern medicine diagnoses that which our minds can safely process while our eyes warn us about how much worse things might be outside the realm of science. |
| User ReviewhenriChinaskiThis movie is not a movie, its just a juxtaposition of hollow images. the actors are not actors, they are tasteless.I think they are family members of the director. The scenario is non existent. Only the photography is interesting but it is neither Tarlovski or kyioshi kurosawa. Its just an empty and pretentious student film. To avoid absolutly except if you want to find sleep. |
