Doctor Who and Rings of Power stars' new horror with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score finally gets release date
May. 1, 2024Starve Acre is out soon
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Upcoming highly-rated horror movie Starve Acre has confirmed its release date with a creepy new photo. The film, which stars Doctor Who star Matt Smith andThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Poweractor Morfydd Clark will be released later this year.
In the UK, it’s distributed by the BFI and will arrive in UK and Irish cinemas on September 6. Meanwhile, in the US, the creepy folk horror is being released byBrain Mediaand will be out in theaters earlier in the summer on July 26.
Based on the book by Andrew Michael Hurley, the film stars Smith and Clark as married couple Richard and Juliette, who are living a seemingly idyllic life in rural Yorkshire. However, when their son Ewan starts acting out of character, a deep trauma rips their relationship apart. Things get increasingly strange when Richard becomes obsessed with an ancient oak tree on his land, which is tied to mythical folklore.
Variety’s Guy Lodgewrites: “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’sA Field in Englandto Mark Jenkins’s Enys Men all tapping into that retro Wicker Man eeriness – but rarely with such rattling sensory specificity or formal refinement.”
The Guardian’s Peter Bradshawgives it three stars, writing: “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.”
Jonathan Romney of Screen Internationaladds: “Starve Acre is woven from fantasy of a very dark strain, yet it has the great virtue of capturing a certain poetic drabness that is inseparably bound with our cinematic memories of ’70s Britain.”
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