Kalamity (film)

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Kalamity
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Film poster
Directed byJames M. Hausler
Written byJames M. Hausler
Produced byJuliana Penaranda
Starring
CinematographyJim Hunter
Edited byJames M. Hausler
Chris Lorusso
Music byChristopher Mangum
Production
company
Beat Pirate Films
Distributed byOriginal 4 Releasing
Screen Media Films
Release date
  • October 22, 2010 (2010-10-22)(Los Angeles) [1]
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Kalamity is a 2010 American psychological thriller film starring Nick Stahl, Jonathan Jackson and Beau Garrett. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Reception

The film has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [6] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 28 out of a 100 based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [7]

Glenn Heath Jr. of Slant Magazine gave the film one and a half stars out of four, explaining his rating by "The brooding main characters in James M. Hausler's Kalamity take indulgent suffering to another level". [8]

Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "[a] pallid, unconvincing thriller" that "carries the battle between the sexes to literal extremes". [9]

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