Starve Acre

Name: Starve Acre
Genre: Horror
Released: July 26, 2024
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Arthur Shaw, Erin Richards, Lewis Kayne, Matilda Firth, Matt Smith

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Brainstorm Media | Release Date: July 26, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Arthur Shaw, Erin Richards, Lewis Kayne, Matilda Firth, Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Robert Emms, Rocco Haynes, Roger Barclay, Sean Gilder

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.

Director: Daniel Kokotajlo

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Tara Brady

Sep 5, 2024

A worthy contender in a British revival characterised by eerie cult classics as Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England, Lee Haven Jones’s The Feast and Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men. Read full review

Perry Norton

Jun 6, 2024

I enjoyed its surreal tinge and the thickening atmosphere. However, I came away a little disappointed with the wavering tone, wondering if it this might have horror blockbuster legs if it were a little more even. As it stands, this is a fantastically enigmatic horror film done beautifully well. Read full review

Neil Smith

Sep 3, 2024

Tapping into the same rich vein of British folk horror the likes of 2015’s The Witch and 2022’s Enys Men mined so productively, Starve Acre roots its dread in a gloomy past that is mundane, real and tangible. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Jun 6, 2024

If Starve Acre seems to walk on well-trodden ground, Kokotajlo is nevertheless adept at inhabiting and revitalising the material. Familiar themes and moods haunt the film with their own uncanny insistence. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Sep 8, 2024

Some pleasingly icky special effects add to the general sense of mouldering menace. Where the picture stumbles, however, is in its almost total lack of effective scares. Read full review

David Hughes

Aug 12, 2024

It’s far from a total failure, however, and although Kokotajlo doesn’t feel entirely at home in the horror genre, he is clearly a talent to be reckoned with. Read full review

Chris Knight

Aug 1, 2024

Atmosphere will only take you so far, and it soon becomes apparent that Starve Acre is 10 liters of helium in a 20-liter balloon. The result is limp and never fully takes flight. Read full review

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