Bloat

2025

Action / Horror

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29% · 14 reviews
IMDb Rating 3.7/10 10 862 862

drowning military officer vacation demon demonic possession found footage

Director

Pablo Absento Photo
Pablo Absento

Top cast

Ethan Herschenfeld Photo
Ethan Herschenfeld as Judge Richard Resnick
Hiroshi Watanabe Photo
Hiroshi Watanabe as Monk
Bojana Novakovic Photo
Bojana Novakovic as Hannah
Larry Bull Photo
Larry Bull as Defense Attorney
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797.36 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 1
1.6 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 8
793.87 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 5
1.59 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 12
3.86 GB
3840*2160
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by haskel-72951 5 / 10

Should have been better

This is a frustrating movie. It has a good plot, not overly original but interesting. It has a solid cast that makes the most of what they have to work with. And there is the problem: the script, and the inexplicable decision to make it "screenlife." It would have been much better as a traditional narrative. Truly squandered potential.
Reviewed by Chris4Reel4Real 3 / 10

Someone Check The WiFi

A military officer is stationed in Turkey while his wife vacations in Japan with their kids. During their trip, their younger son nearly drowns in a lake. Shortly after the incident, the parents realize something is amiss with their child.Maaaaaaaaan, this movie had a chance. Japanese folklore and Ben McKenzie. That's a solid start. Unfortunately, this thing falls flat thanks to it's "screenlife" choice of filming. If you don't like found footage movies, screenlife movies will send you into what the kids are calling a crashout. Don't get me wrong, it can be done extremely well. Look no further than Host (2020). That is the perfect example of how this subgenre can work.Ben McKenzie is a fine enough actor, I loved him in Gotham. He's not the guy that's going to carry a film while staring at a screen. Also the scariest thing in this film is glitchy images. Oh no! Bad WiFi signal! Help Us!IMDb gives this one a 3.7/10 For me, it's a 3.0/10 Grave Mistake.Right or wrong, weak or strong...these are my opinions.
Reviewed by paul_m_haakonsen 2 / 10

Insanely lousy film making...

Given my love of all things horror, then of course I opted to sit down and watch "Bloat", as I had the opportunity to do so here in 2025. Sure, I had never even heard about the movie, and all I knew about it was the fact that it was a horror movie. Which, essentially, was all that I needed to know to make me watch the movie. So I didn't have any expectations to writer and director Pablo Absento, really, so he had every opportunity to entertain and impress me.But talk about a swing and a miss of a movie. You have to watch this garbage heap yourself in order to fathom how lousy film making it actually is. A large portion of the movie is spent with the audience watching Jack (played by Ben McKenzie) sitting at his computer and doing online searches and watching questionable videos. It was insanely boring and laughable to attempt to pass that off as being entertainment. I have to say that this movie, with writer and director Pablo Absento at the helm, was a massive swing and a miss.And it didn't help that a lot of the footage in the movie was filmed with hand-held, shaky camera and layered with a lot of interference filters. It was downright annoying to bear witness to. Plus, a large portion of the movie seemed to be filmed on the performer's mobile phones.Of the entire cast ensemble, I was only familiar with leading actor Ben McKenzie and actress Bojana Novakovic. The acting performances in the movie were actually fair, despite the fact that the movie itself was a dumpster fire.If you enjoy horror movies and prefer to watch a properly filmed and an actually entertaining horror movie, then give "Bloat" a wide, wide berth. It simply isn't worth the film it was recorded on. And wasting 86 minutes on this garbage heap just isn't worth the effort. Some of us literally suffered through this amateurish and home-made attempt of a horror movie, so you don't have to; you're very welcome. This is not a movie that will find its way back to my screen a second time.My rating of writer and director Pablo Absento's 2025 movie "Bloat" lands on a very generous two out of ten stars.
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