Cast: Alicia Sanz, Raul Castillo, David Alexander Flynn

Written and directed By: David Charbnier and Justin Powell

Studio/Streamer: Shudder

Release Year: 2025

There is no known audio description for this title.

What Is it?: A pregnant realtor, trying to sell a murder house, is unexpectedly attacked by a crazed individual. to make things worse, not only does she have to survive, but she’s also in labor.

What Works: Theoretically, the premise. There was some nice music, sometimes.

what Doesn’t Work: Shudder, despite producing audio description for many of its theatrical releases, hasn’t quite figured out how to do it for everything like other major distributors. So, their exclusive new title Push, is sans audio description, which for me as a blind film critic was an awful experience. I sat through it, but there’s very little dialogue. Some of the dialogue was in Spanish, as our heroine is bilingual, though no one would call this film Spanish by definition. I almost would have appreciated a taunting cat and mouse game, with both victim and stalker throwing barbs, if I’m stuck without audio description. there is so very little here to cling on to. it may not be one of the worst films of the year, but for a blind person, it certainly is one of the worst experiences.

And, when she does get out of the house, she’s later in a hospital I assume is dramatically understaffed, and has an alarm popping off because the killer isn’t done just yet. Everyone should, um, push to make their films accessible to a wide audience. I bother with stuff like this because blind people often live with sighted people, and whether in theaters, or at home, the lack of accessibility can branch out to family or friends feeling uncomfortable even watching a film like this, or feeling like they have to fill in the gaps as if they are a professional audio description provider. As filmmakers and artists (and because this is a business), your job is to reach your audience, but you can’t do that if your film directly alienates part of it. If you don’t have audio description, I assume it is because you believe your film doesn’t need it. You would be wrong.

Why You Might Like it: You can see.

Why You Might Not Like it: you can’t. However, just searching some of the scores across the internet suggests that I’m not throwing down a divisive review here. It would seem this film isn’t reaching much of an audience either way.

Final Thoughts: A nearly silent film, in terms of dialogue, is also nearly impossible to experience as a blind person without audio description. I shudder to think how long this push will continue.

Rotten: 1.5/10