A new Netflix horror movie has an almost perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

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A new horror movie has arrived happening Netflix – and it's definitely one to get watched, as it has an all but perfect Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Old Ways hit the pennant in August favourable its October 2020 debut at Sitges Film Festival, and has netted an impressive 95% Critics Score on Rotten Tomatoes at the prison term of writing (H/T ComicBook.com).

The motion picture, directed by Christopher Alender and written by Marcos Gabriel, follows a reporter named Cristina (Brigitte Kali Canales) who goes back to her hometown in Veracruz, looking into witchcraft. Things direct a turn for the worsened when Cristina is kidnapped by a group of people, which includes a bruja (a pistillate witch), who believe she is demonically possessed.

Only when one of the 21 aggregated reviews along Rotten Tomatoes has been judged as negative, with the balance positive.

"The Old Slipway is the greatest exorcism movie since The Exorciser, do not miss it," writes Michael Talbot-Haynes of Film Threat, which is high praise indeed.

Kat Hughes of THN deems the movie "an absolute must-run into," while Ben Robins of HeyUGuys calls the film "a smart, slender little exorcism thriller with plenty of bang for its buck, and a lot to enjoin about social and physical identity element."

The film's lone rotten review, from Roger Moore of Movie Nation, calls it "a repugnance moving picture you lookout but don't 'experience'" with a "bland heroine" – though Dread Cardinal's Michelle Swope is among those who has good things to say about the lead: "Brigitte Kali Canales gives a phenomenal functioning atomic number 3 the tortured Cristina."

You can delay out The Longtime Shipway connected Netflix at once, and if you're in the mood for a fright, see our guide to the best Netflix horror movies to fatten your watchlist.

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