Evil Never Sleeps In First Trailer For Starve Acre

Evil never truly sleeps in the official UK Trailer for folk horror Starve Acre, starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark.

The BFI will release Daniel Kokotajlo’s (Apostasy) second feature which made it’s world premiere at last year’s BFI London Film Festival. The film is based on a book of the same name from Andrew Michael Hurly, Folk horror that looks inspired by The Wicker Man and Rosemary’s Baby.

Starve Acre is set in 1970’s rural Yorkshire. Smith and Clark, a couple whose idyllic rural family life is thrown into turmoil when their son (Arthur Shaw) acts out of character.

As expected in horror, the trailer pushes the unsettling unease of the film. Things are not well and what connection to what’s going on is connected to the rabbit in the tree?

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1970s, rural Yorkshire. Richard and Juliette Willoughby’s seemingly idyllic family life is thrown into turmoil when their young son Owen starts acting out of character. A sudden, tragic event brings grief and drives a wedge between the once happy couple. At Starve Acre, their remote family home, academic archaeologist Richard buries himself in exploring a folkloric myth that the ancient oak tree that once stood on their land is imbued with phenomenal powers. While Juliette turns to the local community to find some kind of peace, Richard obsessively digs deeper. An unexpected discovery soon occupies the couple’s attention and dark and sinister forces, unwittingly allowed into their home, offer a disturbing possibility of reconnection between them.

The ing cast includes Erin Richards, Robert Emms, Sean Gilder and Arthur Shaw.

Starve Acre will be released in UK & Irish cinemas on 6th September.