Film
Starve Acre + Q&A
Free
Attributes
Starve Acre
UK | 2024 | 98’ | 15 | Daniel Kokotajlo
Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards
In 1970s Yorkshire, Richard and Juliette relocate to Richard’s childhood home of Starve Acre, hoping the idyllic country surroundings will benefit their young son. However, a sudden and tragic event drives a wedge through the family, which triggers Richard, an academic archaeologist, to bury himself in obsessively exploring a local folkloric myth. Daniel Kokotajlo’s follow up to his award-winning debut Apostasy is an unnerving adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s acclaimed novel; a wildly eerie, slow-burn folk horror, featuring unflinching performances by Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark.
+ Filmmaker Q&A Wed 4 September
What people are saying
“Supremely creepy… unearths something primeval and toxic at the very roots of a once, and perhaps again, happy family.”
“Earthily atmospheric… brings a fierce discipline to its disorder.”
