Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Moderate
- eerie
- foreboding
- paranoid
- late night horror marathon
- teen horror night
What critics said
Critics broadly regarded the film as an unoriginal and poorly executed supernatural teen horror thriller despite its workable cursed-camera premise.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The vintage Polaroid camera drives the deaths and the group’s investigation into its secret.
The camera transforms photography from a harmless activity into a mechanism of supernatural death.
Bird and her friends race through one night to solve the haunted camera’s mystery before it kills them.
The vintage Polaroid camera and its photographs provide the film’s central eerie motif.
Films like Polaroid, and why
The Ring
Shared cursed-object horror, teenage protagonists, supernatural deaths, and escalating survival tension.
Final Destination
Shared supernatural horror mystery, teenage ensemble, inventive death scenarios, and fatalistic suspense.
Truth or Dare
Shared high-school setting, paranormal threat, teen survival structure, and conventional jump-scare horror.
Ouija
Shared haunted-object premise, adolescent characters, and supernatural mystery built around a deadly curse.
Movie Details
- Director
- Lars Klevberg
- Release Date
- 2019-01-10
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 (1166)
Cast
- Kathryn Prescott
- Tyler Young
- Keenan Tracey
- Samantha Logan
- Priscilla Quintana
- Javier Botet
- Mitch Pileggi
- Davi Santos
- Katie Stevens
- Grace Zabriskie
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Polaroid about?
- A lonely high school student and her friends confront a haunted instant camera whose photographs mark its victims for violent death.
- What is Polaroid like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Polaroid as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Polaroid violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Polaroid as moderate.
- What did critics think of Polaroid?
- Critics broadly regarded the film as an unoriginal and poorly executed supernatural teen horror thriller despite its workable cursed-camera premise.
- Which films are like Polaroid?
- Films with a similar feel include The Ring, Final Destination, Truth or Dare, and Ouija.
- How long is Polaroid?
- Polaroid runs 88 minutes.
- Where can I watch Polaroid?
- In United States, Polaroid streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
