Hallow Road

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Hallow Road

2025

1h 20m

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

Drama

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Two parents receive a distressing late-night call from their teenage daughter, who has just accidentally hit a pedestrian. They jump in their car, racing to get there before anyone else stumbles across the scene. As they head deeper into the night, disturbing revelations threaten to tear the family apart as they soon realize they might not be the only ones driving down Hallow Road.

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Critics Consensus

Minimalist in presentation while getting great mileage out of Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys' superb performances, Hallow Road is a nerve-wracking thriller that takes audiences down a haunting path.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

Nov 10

We're get mystical and magical, and that's when it goes off the road.

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Peter Travers

The Travers Take

Oct 31

3/4

Two people talking in a car. Hardly the stuff of white-knuckle drama, right? It is when you hitch two phenomenal actors, Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys, to a suspenseful script and tightly coiled direction by Babak Anvari, and then let them rip.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

Oct 31

1.5/4

At the same time, however, none of the stuff that has to be protected for the sake of the audience’s viewing pleasure is actually worth protecting.

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

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3/5

Director Babak Anvari crafts a wonderfully creepy atmosphere for this eerie horror thriller, claustrophobically centred on a couple racing through the night to help their daughter.

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Emma Vine

Loud and Clear Reviews

Mar 2

2.5/5

Hallow Road starts off as a promising thriller, but it shoots itself in the foot with a hollow, unsatisfying, and illogical conclusion.

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

Nov 4

4/5

There are surprises throughout and an unexpected twist toward the end, which will keep viewers on their toes, but the final few minutes may lose the faith of more pragmatic viewers.

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Nicholas E

Nov 17

Hallow Road was GREAT!!!

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Mr Hollywood

Nov 5

As a double feature I had a blast. Miss these types of screenings. “Vincent Must Die” was average for me. Nothing special. Seems the director didn’t know or couldn’t think of an explanation so just left it as whatever. “Hallow Road” was the better film. Mysterious and intriguing. I have my idea about it but overall in the moment I was locked in. I went with it and had a great time. Overall I wish they would do more double features.

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Claudio C

@Claudio666 17h

Theatrical but Tense (12,358 – 27 Mar 2026) Maddie and her husband Frank,receive a phone call from their daughter Alice saying that she accidentally hit a teenager on the Hallow Road. They drive to meet Alice, and Maddie instructs her daughter to do CPR. Frank wants to protect her daughter, assuming the hit. Alice sees a car and believes it is her parents. But it is a couple that realizes that she is drugged. Alice’s arguments are very shallow, since she stole Frank’s car after a discussion with her parents; head to the Hallow Road; used drugs; and hit the teenager, and the woman is resolute to call the police. "Hallow Road" (2025) is a theatrical and tense thriller based on the performance of Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys, and basically only one scenario, the interior of Maddie’s car. It is amazing the bad decisions taken by Frank wanting to protect his daughter. My vote is six, Title (Brazil): "Hallow Road: Caminho Sem Volta" ("Hallow Road: Way without Return")

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Joe T

@RT63190069 1d

Pretentious film with a "hidden message" lol, bollocks film, acting was good despite the plot being about as exciting as watching paint dry.

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adriano T

@RT79252000 Mar 12

The suspense works — it keeps us attentive to the film. Not seeing anything from the scene and only hearing it works up to a certain point; however, the movie eventually becomes monotonous, and the ending, as well as the plot, leaves something to be desired. If there hadn’t been anything supernatural, it would have been better.

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revolver.0 8

@Revolver08 Mar 11

acting, visuals, music, tone & pacing allmost superb

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Synopsis

Two parents receive a distressing late-night call from their teenage daughter, who has just accidentally hit a pedestrian. They jump in their car, racing to get there before anyone else stumbles across the scene. As they head deeper into the night, disturbing revelations threaten to tear the family apart as they soon realize they might not be the only ones driving down Hallow Road.

Director: Babak Anvari, William Gillies
Producer: Lucan Toh, Richard Bolger, Ian Henry, Nate Bolotin, Aram Tertzakian
Screenwriter: William Gillies
Distributor: XYZ Films
Production Co: XYZ Films, Two & Two Pictures, London Film
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 31, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 6, 2026
Runtime: 1h 20m

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