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The Surrender

2025 · 95 min

A quiet, grief-soaked horror that creeps under your skin through family tension and an unsettling occult ritual.

Directed by: Julia Max
Genres: Drama, Horror
Starring: Kate Burton, Colby Minifie, Neil Sandilands

Overview: A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.

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Directed by: Julia Max
Genres: Drama, Horror
Starring: Kate Burton, Colby Minifie, Neil Sandilands

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
family
death
obsession
isolation
Places: single country house
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	6
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, horror
Directed by: Julia Max
Written by: Julia Max
Starring: Kate Burton, Colby Minifie, Neil Sandilands, Vaughn Armstrong, Mia Ellis, Pete Ploszek, Chelsea Alden, Riley Rose Critchlow
Music: Alex Winkler
Cinematography: Cailin Yatsko
Runtime: 95 min
Country: United States of America, Canada
Languages: English

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