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Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
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| Slant MagazineChuck BowenWith The Outwaters, the found-footage horror film has unexpectedly found its trippy, unmooring, ultraviolent answer to the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft and the free-associative barbarity of A Page of Madness. |
| SlashfilmLex BriscusoThe Outwaters is an immersive hellmouth waiting to, quite literally, swallow us up and spit us back out into the landscape more horrified of what the universe is capable of than ever before — and trust me, you don't stand a chance against what it has in store for you. |
| ColliderChase HutchinsonA stunning embrace of abject horror that peels back the layers of skin just as it does those of the mind, The Outwaters stumbles upon a brutal brilliance in the desolation of the desert. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThis film takes no prisoners, offers no explanations, and forces you to go on its twisted journey that blends found footage structure with something that H.P. Lovecraft might have dreamed up. It’s a ride. |
| The Daily BeastNick SchagerA cannier, and more effective, slice of shaky-cam insanity than most of its brethren, right down to a finale that’s akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey as processed through a meat grinder. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe Outwaters conjures a swoony, dreamlike atmosphere that heightens the shocks to come. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurraySome may find all this tedious or confusing, but there’s an admirable integrity to Banfitch’s approach. The Outwaters genuinely feels like a first-person perspective on the end of the world. |
| Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsEven when it seems at risk of spinning its wheels into oblivion, there’s an urgent pleasure in watching it spin. |
| We Got This CoveredAlejandra MartinezThe Outwaters is a movie that rewards patience and gives your mind the freedom to run away with its setup and follow it to the bitter end. There is certainly a lot happening here, and it doesn’t all make sense or have an explanation, but that’s the (terrifying) point. |
| The GuardianLeslie FelperinWhile its craft is certainly interesting, there’s something decadent and empty at its heart. |
