The Arborist

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The Arborist

2025

1h 40m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Supernatural events plague a grief-stricken arborist and her young son after a mysterious recluse hires them to remove trees from his sprawling estate.

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Kat Hughes

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Mar 15

4/5

A film bathed in overwhelming tragedy and emotional devastation, The Arborist is on heck of an emotionally fraught haunted folk horror.

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Matthew Jackson

Bloody Disgusting

Feb 5

2.5/5

In the case of The Arborist, the vehicle is certainly there, but its assemblage is haphazard, stuffed full of so many bells and whistles that it barely moves. This is a movie that wants to be many things at once, and ends up being almost none of them.

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George and Josh Bate

ScreenAnarchy

Feb 5

2/5

Unfortunately, however, the film doesn’t resonate emotionally nor provoke psychological terror in the manner these and many other similar projects have, despite it leaning into a decent mystery and suspenseful atmosphere in its second half.

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Debopriyaa Dutta

High on Films

Feb 4

4/5

It’s hard to obsess over flaws when The Arborist achieves what it sets out to do, which is casting a spell of anxiety and doom as soon as we lay eyes on the film’s effective cold open.

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Karina Adelgaard

Heaven of Horror

Feb 3

3/5

...starts really well but loses a lot of momentum in its second half. Maybe even too much?! I’m surprisingly torn about how to view this movie as a whole. So much is done right that I feel I have to honor that, while also pointing out the flaws.

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tm11999 M

@tm11999 Feb 13

yeah, i don't know. jumbled story, all 3 characters are unlikeable, weak and do dumb stuff, right from the start. the drunk baby murdering mid mom is fit, but nobody knows what's going on. go straighten up your work bench in the shop instead.

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Kier R.

@day5615 Feb 8

A good buildup with an interconnecting story between characters, but the “climax” was way too long with way too many “scares”. I fell dull to the buildup and reveals. There was no break in the action, no real time to slow down and come back from a scare, or point where I thought the background music had not been playing for more than a minute. Good first 2/3 of the movie, it’s just the last 1/3 that made me excited to see credits roll.

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@Bradster69 Feb 6

A Collection of Tropes in Search of a Story

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Synopsis

Supernatural events plague a grief-stricken arborist and her young son after a mysterious recluse hires them to remove trees from his sprawling estate.

Director: Andrew Mudge
Producer: Andrew Mudge, Krista Minto, Don Schechter, Ross Saxon
Screenwriter: Andrew Mudge
Distributor: MPI Media Group
Production Co: Black Kettle Films, The Wound Wood, Pizza Baby Films
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 6, 2026
Runtime: 1h 40m

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