Bloat

2025

Action / Horror

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29% · 14 reviews
IMDb Rating 3.7/10 10 692 692

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Pablo Absento Photo
Pablo Absento

Top cast

Ethan Herschenfeld Photo
Ethan Herschenfeld as Judge Richard Resnick
Hiroshi Watanabe Photo
Hiroshi Watanabe as Monk
Ben McKenzie Photo
Ben McKenzie as Jack
Kane Kosugi Photo
Kane Kosugi as Ryan
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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 5
1.6 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
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793.87 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 15
1.59 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
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3.86 GB
3840*2160
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

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.
Reviewed by kannibalcorpsegrinder 5 / 10

A generally frustrating if somewhat watchable feature

Stuck in a different country, a military officer keeping track of his family is relieved that a potential accident to his son is a false alarm when he survives a near-fatal drowning incident, but the longer he's away the more their erratic behavior convinces him something isn't right with his son.This was a generally frustrating if still somewhat enjoyable genre effort. The central premise here is generally fun, offering a chilling take on possession that brings about some intriguing local folklore while utilizing some standard evil kid tropes. The idea of getting to relive the trauma of the fateful drowning while on a call with her and to then be saved when news of the survival is spread gives this a great emotional background for the burgeoning tension that arises the more it continues involving the increasingly erratic and unnatural behavior towards the rest of the family that gets mentioned or glimpsed fleetingly on calls makes for an intriguing enough setup.to propel this one along. As the incidents continue and all point to possession, this launches into a fantastic series of interactions involving the race to unravel the truth and put their knowledge into action. The revelation about the potential spirit holding onto the son and what they would mean as the information gathered from the search into the specific creature gives them the idea for how to carry out the means of stopping him and saving his son's life. The problem here is the screen-life presentation that initially appears quirky but soon becomes immensely off-putting and irritating when watching different screens and apps flash open with no real-world interaction. This would've been a lot more intriguing and enjoyable if played straight, which is a big reason for what holds this down.Rated R: Violence and Language.
Reviewed by neuroticpeacecorpse 5 / 10

Trip gone bad.

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