Bloat
2025·Horror·1h 27m
7.0
★
After a near-death drowning accident, a young boy's family is horrified to discover he has become possessed by a legendary demon from the depths of the lake. As the family races against time to save the boy's soul, the evil monster inside the child tears the family apart as it seeks to destroy everyone in its path.
Directed by Pablo Absento
drowning
military officer
vacation
demon
demonic possession
found footage
japanese folklore
near-death experience
local legend
screenlife
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Cast
Ben McKenzie
Jack Reynolds
Bojana Novaković
Hannah Reynolds
Sawyer Jones
Kyle Reynolds
Malcolm Fuller
Steve Reynolds
Kane Kosugi
Ryan Aoki
Royce Johnson
Derrick
David Gibson
Jack's Father
Ethan Herschenfeld
Judge Richard Resnick
Asha Etchison
Reporter
Zack Eisaku Niizato
Doctor
James Adam Lim
Police Officer #2
Larry Bull
Defense Attorney
Crew
Pablo Absento
Director
Pablo Absento
Writer
Pablo Absento
Producer
Dzhanik Fayziev
Producer
Ben McKenzie
Producer
Timur Bekmambetov
Producer
Aleksander Fomin
Executive Producer
Callum Stembridge
Second Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
15 reviews
bodhi
3.0★ · 01/25/26
Great concept for a film and I always love to see a screenlife film, but Bloat unfortunately suffers from extremely poor execution. Starts off admittedly strong and takes an incredibly steep turn downhill almost immediately. Littered with strange editing choices and inconsistencies, generative AI slop and sloppy production quality in general. Acting performances range from shockingly poor to shockingly okay. Ben McKenzie does pretty alright, but the boy who plays his son Steve in the film shockingly outperforms literally everybody else in this film. Interactions between characters often feel forced and unnatural, likely because they weren't actually acting with each other, and the script baffled me at some points. Not quite as bad as War of the Worlds (2025), but boy it gets close.
Great concept for a film and I always love to see a screenlife film, but Bloat unfortunately suffers from extremely poor execution. Starts off admittedly strong and takes an incredibly steep turn downhill almost immediately. Littered with strange editing choices and inconsistencies, generative AI slop and sloppy production quality in general. Acting performances range from shockingly poor to shockingly okay. Ben McKenzie does pretty alright, but the boy who plays his son Steve in the film shockingly outperforms literally everybody else in this film. Interactions between characters often feel forced and unnatural, likely because they weren't actually acting with each other, and the script baffled me at some points. Not quite as bad as War of the Worlds (2025), but boy it gets close.
Zena Bautista
5.2★ · 06/15/25
idc what anyone says, i liked it. something about it made me like it. creepy. odd. weird.
idc what anyone says, i liked it. something about it made me like it. creepy. odd. weird.
PollypuddlePRO
2.0★ · 04/20/25
I got more upset everytime ai was used
I got more upset everytime ai was used
Ahmad Alblooshi
1.0★ · 04/11/25
This is not cinema💔
This is not cinema💔
Allan
1.0★ · 03/27/25
There’s nothing redeeming about this movie. The fact that it tries to attach itself to Unfriended (which was also bad, not this bad though) is laughable. If you’re thinking about watching this, DON’T. Watch Searching, Missing, Host, even watch Unfriended instead of this.
There’s nothing redeeming about this movie. The fact that it tries to attach itself to Unfriended (which was also bad, not this bad though) is laughable. If you’re thinking about watching this, DON’T. Watch Searching, Missing, Host, even watch Unfriended instead of this.