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Lost Girls2020

Name: Lost Girls
Genre: Psychological, Survival
Released: 2020-01-28
Rating: 6.3

Directed by Liz Garbus

6.3

Crypt Score

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IMDb 6.2Rotten Tomatoes 72%Metacritic 67TMDB 6.1

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Year

2020

Runtime

95 min

Box Office

🏆 1 win total

The premise

When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.

Horror Vault's take

When her daughter vanishes after a night call near a wealthy Long Island enclave, Mari Gilbert refuses to let an indifferent police force bury the case. Her relentless push for answers drags a pattern of violence into the light — one that authorities had little interest in confronting. Amy Ryan anchors this chilling true-crime drama as a mother fighting a system designed to look the other way. The dread here isn't supernatural; it's the mundane horror of how easily some lives are made to disappear.

Content: Themes Of Sex Work And Exploitation, Missing Persons And Murder Of Women, Depictions Of Systemic Neglect And Victim-Blaming, Emotionally Distressing Subject Matter