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Oct 12, 2018 · Gareth Evans ’ “Apostle,” premiering today on Netflix, is an unsettling journey into a very dark corner of the world that may first seem like a radical departure for the man who made the stunt-heavy “The Raid” and its even-crazier sequel.
Apostle resists easy scares in favor of a steady, slow-building descent into dread led by a commanding central performance from Dan Stevens. Read Critics Reviews
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Oct 26, 2018 · Apostle is Netflix's best offering for Halloween. Read our review of what might be 2018's best horror movie
- A visceral and compelling horror-thriller from the director of The Raid.
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By Rafael Motamayor
Updated: Jan 27, 2021 10:55 pm
Posted: Oct 12, 2018 5:25 pm
Apostle was originally reviewed at Fantastic Fest. It is now available exclusively on Netflix.
For his fifth full-length feature, Apostle, Gareth Evans has traded the pulse-pounding action thrills and exceptional martial arts acrobatics of The Raid for full blown folk horror with this grim, nasty and gnarly story about a religious cult in the early 20th century.
The story follows Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens), an ex-priest and the long-lost son of a wealthy man who returns home to find that his sister was kidnapped by a cult and is being held for ransom on a remote island. Thomas takes it upon himself to infiltrate the cult and rescue her before the cult’s sinister plans can come to fruition.
There’s very little in the way of martial arts in Apostle so those expecting Raid-levels of melee fights will be disappointed. That being said, when the film does get violent, it doesn’t hold back. Gareth Evans delivers skull-piercing, limb-crushing set-pieces and visceral torture scenes that will make your skin crawl. Cinematographer Matt Flannery...
With Apostle, Gareth Evans has proven he can not only master action films with stunning choreography, but he can also deliver a bone-chilling folk horror tale rich in mythology and shocking in violence. Apostle owes a lot to classic folk horror films, but Evans manages to make his film feel fresh and gripping enough to satisfy even the most blood-t...
Oct 15, 2018 · Ambitious and unsettling, Netflix ’s Apostle delivers prestige horror in this early 1900s tale of kidnapping, zealotry, and the perversion of power. Written and directed by Gareth Evan s,...
Oct 12, 2018 · Netflix’s latest foray into big-time original filmmaking, Gareth Evans’s Apostle, will feel familiar to you at first.
Oct 12, 2018 · 'Apostle' Review: Dan Stevens Infiltrates Cult in Netflix Original. Home. Film. Reviews. Oct 12, 2018 12:00am PT. Film Review: ‘Apostle’. 'The Raid' director Gareth Evans tries his hand at...
