Starts off with some promise but quickly outstays it's welcome. Ralph Ineson does a good job of playing brooding local Jocelyn Abney but the plot regarding the disappearance of a vicars daughter at a harvest festival thingy has nowhere particularly exciting to go.
Folk horror with its strange pagan symbols and odd country folk with their odd country ways, it's not actually that scary is it?, not in this movie anyway. And it starts to grate after a time.
It reminded me somewhat of a better and rather underrated movie called The Witches from 1966.
Word around the village is the daughter has been abducted by a harvest spirit called Gallawgog.
The mother of the child is played by Tuppence Middleton and she looks suitably anguished throughout and does a good job I thought.
To be honest this was a hard slog and i started to not particularly care what the outcome was. Young Evie Templeton puts in a good turn as the missing daughter, and maybe if your in to Folk Horror more than me you will enjoy it more.
I found it rather washed out and worse , unintentionally funny at times.
