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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Clarisse Loughrey

Starve Acre review: Matt Smith gets his own spin on The Wicker Man in this provocative folk horror

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“This place is beautiful as it is without superstitions,” Starve Acre’s Richard (Matt Smith) insists of his Yorkshire home. Cinema, as of late, would disagree. Unfortunately for Richard, he’s found himself at the centre of yet another contribution to the decade’s folk horror resurgence, preceded by Ari Aster’s Midsommar and 2021’s Iceland-set Lamb, or in the UK by 2022’s Enys Men and Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth.

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