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Broken Bird

Play trailer Poster for Broken Bird Apr 2026,  1h 39m,  Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 90% 21 Reviews Tomatometer - - Popcornmeter
90% Tomatometer 21 Reviews Popcornmeter
Sybil works as an undertaker. It's a lonely job, with few perks so she takes solace where she can.
Broken Bird

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Critics Consensus

With eerie visual precision, Rebecca Calder's haunting lead performance, and steadily escalating revelations, Broken Bird transforms a story of grief and loneliness into something horrifyingly impossible to look away from.

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Phil Hoad Guardian Aug 27, 2024
4/5
With an unerring but sardonic sense of how death presses in on us all, this is a promisingly pungent debut from Mitchell. Go to Full Review
Cameron Ritter Geek Vibes Nation May 27, 2026
4/10
Mitchell shows promise as a director and creative mind, but never quite gets this one where it needs to go. Go to Full Review
Samantha McLaren MovieJawn May 1, 2026
Between Calder’s immaculate performance, Aljosa Spajic’s flawless production design, and Igor Marovic’s cinematography, which balances eerie detachment with shockingly tender intimacy, Broken Bird is remarkably well realized for a first-time feature. Go to Full Review
Simon Foster Screen-Space (Substack) May 1, 2026
3.5/5
Mitchell’s slow-reveal, character-driven shocker...contemplates how the voids left by a loved one’s death can fill themselves with the darkest parts of us. Go to Full Review
Josh Goller Spectrum Culture Apr 29, 2026
2.5/5
Broken Bird turns what could be an intimate character study into a contrived and lifeless spectacle. Go to Full Review
Tina Kakadelis Beyond the Cinerama Dome Apr 23, 2026
For a first-time feature director, Broken Bird is quite the introduction. Mitchell has an eye for performance and design that are excitingly fresh. Go to Full Review
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Joanne Mitchell

Director

Rebecca Calder

Sybil Carmichael

James Fleet

Actor

Jelena Moore

Yummy Mummy

Paul Kampf

Father

Sacharissa Claxton

Actor

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Broken Bird

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Movie Info

Synopsis Sybil works as an undertaker. It's a lonely job, with few perks so she takes solace where she can.
Director
Joanne Mitchell
Producer
Paul Kampf, Holly Levow, Dragan Ivanovic, Mark Pennell, Zoe Stewart
Screenwriter
Joanne Mitchell, Dominic Brunt, Tracey Sheals, Dominic Brunt
Distributor
Catalyst Studios / Seismic Releasing
Production Co
Catalyst Studios
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 24, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 39m
Aspect Ratio
Digital 2.39:1
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