- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- July 26, 2024 (11 months ago)
- Language
- English
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Genres
- Folklore & Mythology
- Production companies
- Access Entertainment · BBC Film · BFI · House Productions
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
Starve Acre

Where to watch (United States)
Cast
Matt SmithRichard
Morfydd ClarkJuliette
Erin RichardsHarrie
Arthur ShawOwen
Sean GilderGordon
Robert EmmsSteven
Roger BarclayDr. Monk
Melanie KilburnMrs. Forde
Matilda FirthYounger Burnsall Sister
Rocco HaynesFootball boy
George ArthurChild (voice)
Robert GoodaleMedhurst
Daisy ExleyOlder Burnsall Sister
Niall CostiganCricket Player
Tess Hodgson-SakamotoFemale Student
Crew
Producers
Levels
- Sex & Nudity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Violence
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Profanity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Algohol & Drugs
- 1
- 2
- 3
>- Fright & Intensity
- 1
- 2
- 3
>
Reviews
Evil takes root in the traditionally slow-burn folk horror Starve Acre A methodical horror befitting its subgenre, Starve Acre watches Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark uncover rural secrets.
Starve Acre review: an unnerving Yorkshire folk horror A grieving family turn to folk remedies and rituals to cope with their loss in Daniel Kokotajlo’s supremely creepy adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s ...
‘Starve Acre’ Review – Sparse Folk Horror Movie Is Too Beholden to the Classics Writer/Director Daniel Kokotajlo adheres to classic folk horror convention with Starve Acre, based on the book by Andrew Michael Hurly. It’s not just the...
Review: Starve Acre - Chicago Reader The folk horror-drama Starve Acre finds suspense in the silence.
Starve Acre Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark are a couple navigating tragedy in Daniel Kokotajlo’s folk horror. Read the Empire review.
Starve Acre review: "Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith headline a chilling and unnerving horror movie" Our verdict is in!
Matt Smith gets his own Wicker Man in the provocative Starve Acre – review Morfydd Clark co-stars in the latest in a resurgence of British spook-fests that riff on countryside chillers of the Seventies
Starve Acre: Hare-raising horror about ancient dark things in the unnerving Yorkshire Dales Daniel Kokotajlo’s adaptation deftly embellishes domestic backstory into grander, grimmer mythology
Starve Acre review – all texture and no teeth Now, he returns with Starve Acre, which leaves behind the streets of Oldham for the broad vistas of the Yorkshire Dales. As well as crossing the Pennines,…
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The Quietly Chilling Starve Acre Will Take Root in Your Brain The autumnal chill of Starve Acre brings to mind some 1970s horror classics, but the movie has more on its mind than homage.
‘Starve Acre’: London Review Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark struggle to deal with tragedy in Daniel Kokatajlo's 70s-set folk horror
BFI London Review: Starve Acre Finds Matt Smith Stuck in a Preposterous Folk Horror Tale With great success comes great expectation, and I doubt that Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre will quite live up to the favorable notices of his first featur...
Starve Acre review — this features the worst horror movie effect in 15 years Daniel Kokotajlo’s film starring Matt Smith about a demonic hare is simply not scary
‘Starve Acre’ Review: Formidably Freaky New Slab of British Folk Horror Goes Deeper Underground Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith play bereaved parents finding a new outlet for their devotion in Daniel Kokotajlo's earthily atmospheric 'Starve Acre.'
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