The folk-horror revival coughs up another pile of Evil Twigs with Starve Acre (now streaming on Shudder), a big slab of haunted-English-countryside atmospherics based on a novel by Andrew Michael ...
Starve Acre was first screened at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2023, before getting a theatrical release in the UK ...
Starve Acre is not a failure, but the strength of the film is capped, mainly, by not going far enough. Smith and Clark do ...