Daniel Kokotajlo’s adaptation deftly embellishes domestic backstory into grander, grimmer mythology

A grieving couple are plagued by an ancient menace – if not actual scares – in Daniel Kokotajlo’s adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s novel

The folk horror-drama Starve Acre finds suspense in the silence.

Morfydd Clark co-stars in the latest in a resurgence of British spook-fests that riff on countryside chillers of the Seventies

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play a couple who move to an isolated Yorkshire Dales estate in Daniel Kokotajlo’s folk horror.

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 feature, the BAFTA-nominated Apostasy. The story, which has been adapted from a novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, concerns Richard (Matt Smith) and Juliette Willoughby (Morfydd Clark), who have recently moved

Starring Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith, Starve Acre is a chilling and unnerving retro spine-tingler.

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark are a couple navigating tragedy in Daniel Kokotajlo’s folk horror. Read the Empire review.

Daniel Kokotajlo’s film starring Matt Smith about a demonic hare is simply not scary

Pagan folklore and psychodrama fuse in an eerie and beautifully shot chiller that isn’t as wild as it needs to be

Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith play bereaved parents finding a new outlet for their devotion in Daniel Kokotajlo's earthily atmospheric 'Starve Acre.'

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark star in an eerie, windswept folk horror

A methodical horror befitting its subgenre, Starve Acre watches Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark uncover rural secrets.

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

Starve Acre Review - '70s set folk horror movie starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark is somber and atmospheric, but is it worth watching?

BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark, there is something phantasmal within director Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre, a nudging and barging from other entities as you watch. A piece of Hereditary will seem to manifest, or a scene from The Witch. Folk horror got blended to smooth perfection by Hot

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark struggle to deal with tragedy in Daniel Kokatajlo’s 70s-set folk horror

Saint Maud's Morfydd Clark co-stars in this chilling flashback to the 1970s (and other, darker periods in U.K. history).

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 novel.