4.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Banished (2025)
The Banished (2025)
Overview
Australian folk horror directed and written by Joseph Sims-Dennett. After her brother mysteriously disappears, Grace (Meg Clarke) ventures into the rural wilderness to find him, confronting hidden dangers and local enigmas. Co-starring David Beelen as a backpacker and Leighton Cardno as Mr. Green.
Starring Cast
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
4.0
Overview
Australian folk horror directed and written by Joseph Sims-Dennett. After her brother mysteriously disappears, Grace (Meg Clarke) ventures into the rural wilderness to find him, confronting hidden dangers and local enigmas. Co-starring David Beelen as a backpacker and Leighton Cardno as Mr. Green.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central conflict revolves around religious trauma and abusive family dynamics within a cult-influenced community, offering a subtle critique of institutional harm that aligns with progressive values.
Visible diversity appears in the cast through an actor of Portuguese-Angolan descent in a supporting role. Subtle critique emerges in the portrayal of an abusive father figure, highlighting personal trauma without centering broader identity politics.
Secondary
In this folk-horror descent into familial rot, the narrative dismantles the traditional family edifice by exposing paternal religious authority as a mechanism of abuse and exile, with sibling bonds strained by inherited trauma rather than nurtured by communal support. The decisive factor is the film's unsparing critique of rigid hierarchies within the home, favoring psychological rupture over reconciliation.
The film presents Christianity via a fundamentalist community led by an abusive patriarch whose control fosters trauma and secrecy, with the narrative emphasizing the faith's role in enabling disappearances and family destruction without redeeming elements.
The film features no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
The film contains no transgender characters or themes. The narrative centers on a woman's quest to find her missing brother amid folk-horror elements in the Australian outback, without any exploration of transsexual identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Banished presents an original story featuring newly created characters, with no adaptations or recasts from prior source material that would involve gender swaps.
The Banished is an original Australian folk horror film featuring newly created characters without established racial baselines from prior source material, adaptations, or historical figures, so no race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
3.7
4.2
Critic Ratings
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