Hallow Road Is Suspenseful but Scenes Feel Like an Audio Book at Times

Hallow Road is suspenseful but scenes feel like an audio book at times

HALLOW ROAD (15) 80mins ★★★☆☆ PARosamund Pike stars in Hallow Road[/caption] PAMatthew Rhys and Rosamund in a scene for this suspenseful movie[/caption] HOW far would you go to protect your child? That’s the question posed by director Babak Anvari in this high-tension thriller with a scenario which would be any parent’s worst nightmare. Nineteen-year-old Alice (Megan McDonnell) has fled behind the wheel of dad Frank’s car following a family argu…

Rosamund Pike speeds off with the sickeningly effective thriller Hallow Road – review

The ‘Gone Girl’ star and Matthew Rhys play a couple attempting to rescue their daughter along a dark, twisty countryside road

Hallow Road, review: ‘Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys in car-crash nail-biter’ - The Jewish Chronicle

Babak Anvari’s psychological thriller is shot almost entirely from within the confines of a car

Hallow Road review — 'a lean, mean, tension-filled ride'

As cinematic challenges go, keeping things interesting while shooting in a confined space for a lengthy period is one of the more demanding and impressive feats. Steven Knight and Tom Hardy successfully accomplished it back in 2013 with the car-centric Locke, a movie which makes for a congruent compilation with Babak Anvari’s excellent fourth feature Hallow Road. For the vast majority of the latter’s 80-minute runtime is focused on two actors in…

‘I'm a sucker for mixing genres’: Babak Anvari on his family horror Hallow Road

Film and TV ‘I’m a sucker for mixing genres’: Babak Anvari on his family horror Hallow Road The British-Iranian director on creating his nerve-shredding yet dreamy drama Leila Latif – 16 May 2025 Rosamund Pike stars alongside Matthew Rhys in Hallow Road. Photograph from Universal Pictures It’s incredible to think that someone so jovial as Babak Anvari — who describes his collaborators as “amazing” and “wonderful”, and finds interview questions “…

Review Round Up: Hallow Road

We round up the reviews for this new thriller starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXGL49DpjJo The Guardian: **** "this is a really exhilarating, disturbing picture which foregrounds excellent writing and performances." The Independent: **** "Maddie and Frank clash over what they believe is best for their daughter, as Pike and Rhys work through each…