Saturday 30 December 2023

‘Starve Acre’: a new folk horror (En)

When The Wicker Man and Penda’s Fen meet The Shining?.. The more folk horror the better, I guess.
The film is thus set in the precise era when many of its most obvious influences, including “The Wicker Man” and “Don’t Look Now,” would have been on cinema screens — not that anybody’s going to the movies in this remote, wind-whipped enclave, where even television seems a slightly anachronistic imposition on the local lifestyle, fitting only when the faulty local signal collapses the image into blaring static. ©

Looking forward to watching it in 2024.

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