Starve Acre UK trailer starring Matt Smith & Morfydd Clark | In cinemas 6 Sep 2024 | BFI

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark star in this stylish adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley's folk horror novel.
In 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.
Director Daniel Kokotajlo's follow up to his BAFTA nominated debut Apostasy opens in UK/Irish cinemas on 6 September.
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[@MikeFowlerguitars]

Best book of the three by a long chalk. Matt Smith a very fine actor who's had too little to do in recent years. Adds up to a very promising little film

[@averyy.gordin2408]

Galadriel and Daemon Targeryen together in a folk horror film? Gimme gimme gimme!! 🤗🤗

[@Jim_mears]

Found myself thinking “God, Smith’s looking old” while watching this, then reminded myself that he is the same age as me and we went to university together (I knew him well enough to stop and chat on the stairs, not well enough to hang out other than that, except at house-parties). “It all just disappears doesn't it? Everything you are, gone in a moment like breath on a mirror,” indeed.

[@Owen-ub3fv]

Cool.

[@chubbyboy2242]

So your only 41? Relax, you've got a lot of life left to live...

[@sliverhandsonbasses]

He’s alzo my grandson, and I’m only 40

[@Jim_mears]

@@chubbyboy2242 My happiest days are passed now, and that’s okay. My only regret is that I will never know anything like the glory of getting second-billing on the poster for Morbius.

[@chubbyboy2242]

@@Jim_mears Well since no one can predict the future... There's no way you could possibly know if your happiest days have passed.

[@Lion_Heart_33]

Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith are brilliant. Cannot wait. Looks epic.

[@SleepingHowl]

Been looking forward to this one. Love these two actors.

[@sixteenstringjack]

Shame it's had slightly poor reviews, the acting is great, it's super creepy and it looks beautiful. Bit of a folk horror masterpiece IMO

[@seankeef9838]

Go Matt Smith.

[@maxrlincoln]

Saw at the London Film Festival, its fantastic!

[@StonyGranite]

Galadriel and Doctor Who sitting in a tree, T-E-R-R-I-F-Y-I-N-G

[@rickg8015]

Galadriel and Daemon Targaryen…

[@subhankar_sarkar]

Man, this new House of the Dragon trailer looks good... Oh, look there's also Galadriel in it!

[@lithosfear]

That looks great!

[@unicorn_bread]

Seems like the movie is going to be scarier than the book.

[@TheseFourWalls]

That's what I was just thinking.

[@lukethomas216]

I’ve been waiting for news on this being released. Can’t wait-great book, great cast!😁

[@LinouGertz]

A horror movie with Morfydd? Count me in!

[@Lycoapollo]

There were two versions of the novel with two different endings. I wonder which version they'll adapt.

[@loskri7]

The crossover we all needed 😄

[@Melisa-g1j]

House of the dragon and rings of power together lmfao

[@dahdahdah]

i'm watching this because of My lady Galadriel.

[@James-i4z4s]

Anything set in Yorkshire is automatically an horror.

[@PennyPax-zl5pp]

Thompson Nancy Martinez Shirley Hall Helen

[@CriticalPopcorn]

INTENSITY. AAAHHH

[@anche70]

Galadriel said if you can't beat em, join em. Eh Matty?

[@echolot]

surely it is a Daemon, oops, demon

[@gb8628]

Huh? About the only sentence i could understand was"your granddaddy bought this land"

[@paulleverton9569]

I never knew Barbara Kean was British - but I'll not be watching this until it's free and I have absolutely nothing else to do. Is there a person on earth who cannot guess everything about this film from the 98 seconds trailer? Matt Smith as a generic northerner in a creepy northern house on a creepy northern moorland with a creepy northern kid wearing a creepy northern snorkel Parka. The end. It's basically a weird version of EVIDENTLY CHICKENTOWN by John Cooper Clarke, another weird northerner (and probably the inspiration for creepy weird northern kid in the film).

[@simonhadley8829]

I only know Morfydd Clark feom RoP and this already looks like a better performance.

[@newme1634]

take a look in saint maud

[@Exodiant]

Just read the book after buying it nearly a year ago, and I can't wait to see this now!

[@360.Tapestry]

i can see matt smith making a very tragic frankenstein's creature with darker hair

[@kikidevine694]

Looks very Phil Rickman, which is good

[@360.Tapestry]

know that you are susceptible to this world

[@nikchemnyk]

Hated the book but the movie may be pretty good?

[@AnnaWagner425]

Incredible novel. I cannot wait for this

[@peterschorn1]

"I saw something nasty in the woodshed!"

[@myrandang2088]

Daemon Targaryen and Galadriel

[@danielrebollar8661]

daemon y visenya targaryen

[@SLOTHSRIDEUNICORNS]

Too many weird noises.

[@aimeeartigliere]

Looks terrifying

[@carolinem5515]

looks awesome

[@ladejade790]

Can anybody explain this obsession with "folk horror?" What exactly is "folk horror?"

[@EonChao-dr7yb]

Folk horror is horror with a focus on isolated rural settings and the darkness and cruelty inherent in nature, explored through things like paganism, folklore and local superstitions. The obsession is that it’s currently a popular way of approaching horror whilst also not requiring expensive elaborate effects to make effective, people want to watch it and it’s not super expensive to make them

[@ladejade790]

@EonChao-dr7yb thank you this reply was eloquent and this makes sense to me! I actually may go see this now! 🙏🏿

[@DK-yq5nx]

It’s actually a time honoured British genre. Watch Blood on Satan’s Claw, The Wicker Man, Robin RedBreast and Penda’s Fen and you might begin to get some idea.

[@sarahprice659]

I am interested! 😂

[@Born2Fight4PAIN]

That daemon?

[@jeremiahjohnsen1711]

Yea I’m down haha

[@bnk57]

Grand.

[@zeligsoundofficial]

yes

[@BladeDoomer86]

Hell yeah! 👍🏻

[@magpiesneedle2575]

Oh yeah!

[@bzztthundaa]

😱

[@MrPookiexL3oi]

Morfydd Clark is good in horror, suspense and even drama movies but not Lord of the rings. Sorry but not sorry.

[@carlg5086]

English drawl.

[@Moviefandumb]

From the director of the incredible Apostasy doing a horror movie with Matt Smith from Morbius? HELL YES

[@jonylawson73]

Matt Smith "from morbius " 😅😅😅😅 oh young people crack me up

[@Moviefandumb]

I haven’t seen Doctor Who if your wondering

[@brewster_4]

@@Moviefandumb You haven't lived

[@wulfgold]

Shame about Matt Smith's oversized face.

[@eden-be9uj]

Stupid film time wasted

[@joekillingsworth9002]

Doesn't look like its worth the watch think ill pass

[@IsiahTomas]

Just to be safe, maybe we don't talk about that one guy in the Freakazoid cartoon. Just this once. Now, Inglewood Jack, on the other hand-

[@endryus75]

Geez... Morfydd has fewer facial expressions than Keanu Reeves.