Broken Bird

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Broken Bird

Apr 2026

1h 39m

Horror

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Sybil works as an undertaker. It's a lonely job, with few perks so she takes solace where she can.

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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

08/27/2024

4/5

With an unerring but sardonic sense of how death presses in on us all, this is a promisingly pungent debut from Mitchell.

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Cameron Ritter

Geek Vibes Nation

6d

4/10

Mitchell shows promise as a director and creative mind, but never quite gets this one where it needs to go.

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Samantha McLaren

MovieJawn

May 1

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.

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Simon Foster

Screen-Space (Substack)

May 1

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.

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Josh Goller

Spectrum Culture

Apr 29

2.5/5

Broken Bird turns what could be an intimate character study into a contrived and lifeless spectacle.

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Tina Kakadelis

Beyond the Cinerama Dome

Apr 23

For a first-time feature director, Broken Bird is quite the introduction. Mitchell has an eye for performance and design that are excitingly fresh.

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Juandi

May 11

This was well acted, well shot & mostly entertaining. The ending was very underwhelming but not bad enough that it ruins the movie. I’ll always root for indie movies & this is a strong effort.

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Greg

May 1

Nonsensical. Needed so much more backstory

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Bruce M

@BruceMc Apr 30

Despite nice set design, good direction and a nice performance by lead Rebecca Calder, "Broken Bird" is simply okay, not very memorable and certainly doesn't present anything new. It's the best movie about a woman working in a funeral home of 2026, but that's not saying much. For a much smarter and better movie with a similar setting, see the 1996 "Kissed."

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Roman

Apr 29

Depraved in a fun way.

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DAVID G

Apr 29

very boring film women should leave film writing to men

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Steven G

@roflplatypus Apr 28

Yeah it wasn't perfect, but was still pretty good. No jump scares, which is always nice. Weaving together the plotlines worked pretty well. Ms. Calder is perfectly unhinged. Twists you can kinda see coming from a while away, but they still do hit when they finally get there.

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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