Starve Acre

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.

Directed by BAFTA nominee Daniel Kokotajlo (APOSTASY), starring Matt Smith (HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO, DOCTOR WHO) and Morfydd Clark (SAINT MAUD, LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD)

"This 1970s-set folk horror, unnervingly scored by Matthew Herbert, unearths something primeval and toxic at the very roots of a once, and perhaps again, happy family." Anton Bitel, Sight & Sound