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- 2024
- Brainstorm Media
- 1 h 38 m
- 2024
- Brainstorm Media
- 1 h 38 m
Summary When their son starts acting strangely, a couple (Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark) unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.
Directed By: Daniel Kokotajlo
Written By: Daniel Kokotajlo, Andrew Michael Hurley
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- Brainstorm Media
- 1 h 38 m
- 2024
- Brainstorm Media
- 1 h 38 m
Starve Acre
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Summary When their son starts acting strangely, a couple (Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark) unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.
Directed By: Daniel Kokotajlo
Written By: Daniel Kokotajlo, Andrew Michael Hurley
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
70
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Aiming for authenticity, Kokotajlo finds supernatural power and dramatic weight in the genre’s rustic simplicity.
Daniel Kokotajlo‘s impressive second feature unfolds in a vein of British folk horror that has been popular of late — with films from Ben Wheatley’s “A Field in England” to Mark Jenkins’s “Enys Men” all tapping into that retro “Wicker Man” eeriness — but rarely with such rattling sensory specificity or formal refinement.
Starve Acre is not one of those horror films that everyone going in blind will enjoy. It’s not a crowd pleaser or a popcorn thriller. It’s a steady, methodically engineered, beautifully realized meditation on the slow, persistent sting of grief, and a gentle unearthing of the things we bury deep in our souls.
At times, it’s scary how derivative it is. Still, as crepuscular weirdness seeps across the story and leads to a delirious ending, it’s largely effective.
Starve Acre is a rousing addition to the British folk horror tradition with intensely emotional lead performances that takes viewers on a nostalgic journey into pagan ritual.
Smith and Clark, at the head of a very capable supporting cast, keep the movie on an even dramatic keel, with intelligent, thought-through performances putting life back into some familiar tropes.
Not even the most masterly work can entertain for very long when it is put to preposterous use.
By Oliver Weir
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