Tethered
Genre: Horror
Director: Mike Flanagan
Writer: Joshua Collins
Cast: Jesse Plemons, Aubrey Plaza, Nell Fisher, Garcelle Beauvais, Ciaran Hinds
Budget: $23,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $40,205,394
Foreign Box Office: $32,121,117
Total Profit: $28,484,999
Reaction: We are very happy with the outcome of this one given its budget and genre - and it gives writer Joshua Collins a streak of three box office successes in a row now.
"Mike Flanagan’s Tethered is a moody supernatural horror rooted in grief and the consequences of tampering with fate. Jesse Plemons and Nell Fisher deliver strong performances, and the film builds effective tension. But despite its atmosphere, Tethered leans too heavily on familiar genre tropes, clunky dialogue dulls the emotional impact, leaving a film that feels more routine than revelatory." - Freddie Poulter, TheWrap.com
"Tethered plays like a fever dream of grief, motherhood, and psychic dread, with Mike Flanagan directing in his most emotionally raw mode since The Haunting of Hill House. Jesse Plemons and Aubrey Plaza give grounded, haunting performances as parents caught in a supernatural debt they never fully understood. While the film leans into familiar horror tropes, it does so with such aching sincerity and tragic inevitability that the clichés feel earned. It’s overlong, but Tethered is that rare horror film that manages to feel both mythic and painfully intimate." - Camille Rhodes, The Bay Herald Tribune
"There’s no denying the emotional ambition behind Tethered, but ambition doesn’t always translate to coherence. Mike Flanagan builds a compelling setup — what if you saved a child with dark magic and lived to regret it? — but by the time Fiona is strangling bullies with her mind and conversing with her evil bathtub twin, the tone wobbles between chilling and unintentionally campy. The cast commits admirably, but the film's pacing falters under the weight of its overly detailed mythology." - Gregory Stiles, Nightwire Dispatch
Rated PG-13 for frightening sequences, thematic elements, and brief violence
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