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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Ryan Samul's cinematography and Jeff Grace's score pick up the slack, smoothly maintaining an unstable atmosphere of lurking horror. Read more
Ethan Gilsdorf, Boston Globe: Other undead movies needlessly foreground the action. "Stake Land'' has its fight scenes, but here they're secondary. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: Mickle's observation of a devastated working-class America is so sharp that the horror elements, though effectively handled, come to feel like an afterthought. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Mickle has talent, and the end credits include a character known as "French Canadian Cannibal," which is worth a half-star right there. Read more
Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: A gritty, low-key hybrid of horror film and road movie that aptly demonstrates the stylistic flexibility of this undying genre. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Shows that a savvy mixture of characterization, atmosphere and gore-eographed suspense can make even the most familiar fright tropes feel vaguely organic again. Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: Fans of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" will find much to enjoy in this sombre and nerve-wracking postapocalyptic horror film, directed and co-written by Jim Mickle. Read more
Scott Tobias, NPR: Though it has plenty of shocks, the film creates a wasteland that would be compellingly deranged even without vampires pressing insistently at every border. Horror is just the half of it. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Some numbers are too large to contemplate. How many drops of water are there in the ocean? How many grains of sand are there in the desert? How many more apocalyptic zombie movies must I sit through? Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: There isn't much dialogue, and most of the 98-minute running time is devoted to locking in one terrifyingly gothic encounter after another, but the characters are well defined, and director Mickle makes every dime of his micro-budget count. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Director Jim Mickle, who co-wrote the film with his star Nick Damici, has crafted a good-looking, well-played and atmospheric apocalyptic vision. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: "Stake Land" bursts with action, ideas and interesting characters. Read more
Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Jeff Grace's melancholy music underscores the atmosphere of bleak dystopian despair, leavened by flashes of humour and hope. Read more
Karina Longworth, Village Voice: It's an ambitious hybrid, grafting the ethereal, landscape-driven, light-infused beauty and naif narration associated with Terrence Malick onto a tale in which struggle against supernatural forces is just one challenge of coming of age. Read more