The Woman in the Yard
2025
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Movie
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88 min
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Horror
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Fantasy
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Mystery-Suspense
52%
Community
4,220
LOVE
9%
LIKE
43%
MEH
34%
DISLIKE
14%
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Clay Werner disliked
The Woman in the Yard
3.6 - I expected this to be horrible, & it was just bad, so I guess that’s a win?
There’s definitely more to the story than the trailer implied, & Danielle Deadwyler holds down her lead role well. But a messy story & an extreme lack of effective scare moments still make it more of a disappointment than worthwhile.
It’s a movie that feels like it thinks it’s much smarter than it is. And it’s really just more bleak than anything else. There’s a decent amount of creepiness early, but so many scenes drag on way too long & the character actions get overly repetitive. Then it starts getting into psychological & reality questions & pretty much fully loses its way. (Never mind that it’s also so darkly lit you can’t see much of the second half clearly.) And then ends up being mostly recycled trauma horror tropes in the end with an ending that wants to be ambiguous & really isn’t.
If you want a short horror for a date night maybe this is the move (at least that was 90% of my crowd), but I think there’s many better options out right now.
1y
Lady Rokujo loved
The Woman in the Yard
In between like and love! It was very sad but I like that it really makes you think and is somewhat (?) ambiguous (imo the ending was made pretty clear but I suppose it could be left up to interpretation). I feel like the low ratings are just bc people didn’t understand it 😭
299d
Recent Reviews
solene rowe liked
The Woman in the Yard
slow start. expected the plot. the movie is about mourning and depression. kinda okay
16d