The Carrier (film)

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The Carrier
Directed by Anthony Woodley
Written byLuke Healy
Helen Kingston
Stefan Mitchell
Anthony Woodley
Produced byLuke Healy
Cody Lieberman
Anthony Woodley
Starring
CinematographyMarcus Gillis
Edited byDrew King
Eugene Kotlyarenko
Music byJoseph Paul Alvarado
Production
companies
Megatopia Films
SPEIS Limited
Premiere Picture
Future Masters of Technology
Distributed by Altitude Film Distribution
Release dates
  • 30 September 2015 (2015-09-30)(Raindance Film Festival)
  • 26 January 2017 (2017-01-26)(UK)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Carrier is a 2015 British science fiction thriller film directed by Anthony Woodley, starring Edmund Kingsley, Jack Gordon and Karen Bryson.

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Reception

Cleaver Patterson of Scream rated the film 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote that the film "has all the feel of an inflight movie and something you’d probably only watch to pass the time." [1]

Gareth Jones of Dread Central rated the film 2 stars out of 5 and wrote that the film is a "respectable, if sub-par, indie thriller with a few good ideas behind it… but it just never takes off." [2]

Jeremy Aspinall of RadioTimes rated the film 2 stars out of 5 and wrote that while the film has a "committed" cast, it is not "particularly scary". [3]

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References

  1. Patterson, Cleave (27 January 2016). "THE CARRIER: Film Review". Scream . Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  2. Jones, Gareth (22 January 2016). "Carrier, The (UK DVD)". Dread Central . Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  3. Aspinall, Jeremy. "The Carrier (2014)". RadioTimes . Retrieved 1 October 2023.