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Starve Acre: a stylish folk horror that’s a bit too respectable

Set in rural Yorkshire in the mid-70s, Starve Acre brings together the recent vogue for folk horror with an equally trendy retro quality. The dull shades of net curtains and chunky cardigans offer both a sense of the uncanny and their own kind of earthen chic.

The Conversation · Sep 2, 2024

Starve Acre review – intelligent performances in sinister Yorkshire folk horror

London film festival Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play an unhappy couple who have moved to the moors with their young son, and soon become entwined in the occult

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2023

Starve Acre at the London Film Festival: Folk horror with Matt Smith is high on atmosphere, if low on scares

Daniel Kokotajlo’s adaptation of acclaimed occult novel features two grieving parents who dig into the past of their family estate

Evening Standard · Oct 12, 2023