Damian Mc Carthy
Caveat
5.9 
6.0A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
- Director: Damian Mc Carthy
- Main Cast: Ben Caplan, Johnny French
- Screenplay: Damian Mc Carthy
Cinema Premiere: October 10, 2020
7 english reviews of Caveat (2020)
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6.8 / 10
Mounting dread that incises every moment, even when rational logic insists that one can put their guard down. This level of nerve-shredding consistency is worthy of praise, particularly from an emerging voice in the genre.
- Natalia Keogan -
6.7 / 10
"Caveat" exists in a liminal space between genres, which is fitting for a film about the skeletons that might hide inside the walls of an old house.
- David Ehrlich -
6 / 10
The final endgame is a little unsatisfying, but this is a very interesting debut for McCarthy.
- Leslie Felperin -
6 / 10
"Caveat" is like a gothic horror tone poem, with pungent notes of decay.
- Noel Murray -
5.8 / 10
Films like "Caveat" are interesting because they make you wonder what was going through the writer-director’s mind when conjuring their premise. Filmmaker Damian McCarthy doesn’t just give Isaac amnesia—he draws the character’s sole human connection as a man who cannot be trusted.
- Jared Mobarak -
5 / 10
Mc Carthy serves up a generically foreboding premise and pulls off several efficiently traditional jump scares in this variation on a haunted-house formula, but it’s the shape-shifting mind games of his own narrative that most unnerve the viewer, as seemingly fixed plot points of who is under threat — and when, and why, and so on — keep darting out of sight.
- Guy Lodge
Box Office
Caveat has earned a total of 78 665 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
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1. Roger Ebert
The darkness and long stretches of stillness create a palpable spookiness, a prolonged state of anxiety, without relying on any special effects, or quick-cut fancy camera moves. The film is nerve-racking, and a reminder of how much can be done on a low budget if one is inventive enough, certain enough in the story one wants to tell.
- Sheila O'Malley
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