LORD OF MISRULE

Nick Setchfield

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | 15 | Download ▸ Director William Brent Bell ▸ Cast Tuppence Middleton, Ralph Ineson, Matt Stokoe → The classic tropes of folk horror are so familiar by now, so well-grooved, that this most disquieting of genres is in danger of feeling cosy. New British chiller Lord Of Misrule dutifully ticks the boxes: a rural idyll that conceals a bloody past; a missing child and a murderous conspiracy of village folk; undying pagan rituals that lurk at the edges of the modern day. Yes, all the faithful trimmings are here. Poppets. Antlers. Carved masks. There’s even a local boozer that falls deathly quiet when somebody enters – though in this case it’s not a stranger but the vicar, Rebecca Holland (Tuppence Middleton). Her daughter Grace…

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