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The midpoint between Enys Men and Lamb, Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre offers an authentic slice of the ‘70s and a new entry in the British folk horror canon.

We follow archaeologist and professor Richard and his wife Jules (Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark), to the North Yorkshire farm where Richard grow up, and where Richard now seeks to give his son Owen (Arthur Shaw) the childhood his father robbed him of. But all does not go to plan, and Owen begins exhibiting disturbing behaviours and talking of voices compelling him to do evil things.

While this sets us up in the direction of The Omen, Starve Acre takes a sharp turn for the Rosemary’s Baby as Owen drops dead and is replaced by a hare whose bones Richard finds buried on the farm.  Things only get stranger from there, as the two parents become entranced by this creature, and begin unearthing a mysteriously preserved tree from the same plot of land.

Only Kokotajlo’s second feature, Starve Acre promises of what the director has to come, while offering us plenty to look at in the here, the now, and the past - but thanks to its limited release and director’s relatively recent entry into the industry, it hasn’t reached nearly enough of you yet.