Moloch (2022 film)

The film focuses on 38 year old Betriek (Sallie Harmsen), who lives with her family in a house on edge of a peat bog in north Netherlands. The family's relatively peaceful existence is shattered one day when a mysterious stranger attacks the house one night, setting off a string of unexplained events that Betriek attempts to unravel the mystery of the stranger. All the while, an ancient evil lurks deep within the bog.

• Sallie Harmsen as Betriek
• Alexandre Willaume as Jonas
• Anneke Blok as Elske
• Ad van Kempen as Ton
• Noor van der Velden as Hannah
• Markoesa Hamer as Sonja
• Edon Rizvanolli as Radu
• Jack Wouterse as Hans
• Phi Nguyen as Lennard
• Willemijn Kressenhof as Dr. Mensinck
• Fred Goessens as Roelof

The film was released in theatres in the Netherlands on 19 May 2022.[1]

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 88% based on 16 reviews.[2] Kurt Halfyard of ScreenAnarchy called the film a "bonafide gem of a horror movie" and van den Brink a "filmmaker to keep a very close eye on."[3] Kevin Toma of de Volkskrant rated the film 4 stars out of 5.[4] Whang Yee Ling of The Straits Times rated the film 3 stars out of 5, calling it a "well-crafted exercise in dread" and wrote that van den Brink "turns an over-familiar tale into a uniquely local folk horror."[5]

Roosje van der Kamp of filmkrant wrote a mixed review of the film.[1] Jon Mendelsohn of Comic Book Resources wrote that while the film "plays with interesting ideas and spends time with its characters", it "can't seem to blend everything together into a concrete whole" and "final product is a bit unsatisfying."[6]

• Moloch at IMDb
• Moloch at Rotten Tomatoes