The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw

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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw

2020

Directed by Thomas Robert Lee

There's a new witch in town.

A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

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WraithApe
Review by WraithApe ★★½

Horror, horror in the fall, who's the folkest of them all? If I tell you this is a darkly atmospheric slow burn with a foreboding score, washed-out colour palette and plate full of witchery you won't be in the least bit surprised will you? It distinguishes itself slightly by being set in the relatively near past but still attains period austerity through the quirk of it being based in an isolated community that hasn't moved with the times - so it still feels like the 19th Century. Unless it's based on a true story, which seems unlikely, it's a puzzling contrivance. The other thing that runs counter to folk horror convention is that the witchery on display isn't ambiguous -…

Sara Clements
Review by Sara Clements ★★★★ Liked 3

It’s autumn of 1973, but you wouldn’t know it. As a plane flies above, what’s below is a settlement that looks 100 years in the past. But as the introductory text to writer-director Thomas Robert Lee’s, The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw, explains, a group of Irish families established an isolated settlement in North America, the settlers keeping to Victorian times. Far from modernism, but not far enough from society to avoid pestilence it seems. In an event preceding the film, known as “the eclipse,” the settlement is hit with a sickness that poisons the soil, mutates livestock, and kills some residing in the small community. The only farmstead that the pestilence didn’t affect belongs to Agatha Earnshaw (Catherine Walker), which…

Dennis
Review by Dennis ★★★½

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is a slow burn horror movie that takes us into a settlement of people who chose to live by the old ways instead of enjoying the modern technolgy.

It's still set in the 50's and shows us a mother who lives outside the settlement.
She has a daughter, but no one has to know it.
But Audrey doesn't want to just be at home anymore and starts to do her own thing which will not end well for some people.

The film takes it's time and builds up the mood and is slowly transforming into a very dark and merciless tale about the coming of age, rebellion and revenge.
It took turns that I didn't see coming and stays ambivalent until the end.

It's a little gem that I can recommend to people who like slow burn horror movies mixed with coming of age.

Mos Co
Review by Mos Co ★★½

This didn't hit any great heights but it wasn't bad either.

Voltron 2005
Review by Voltron 2005 ★½

If you like the 2015 movie "the witch" but on a much lower budget and weaker plot, this flick is for you. There's some gruesome scenes but overall, it a very slow burn without a good pay off. Worth watching on a rainy day.

B E R T
Review by B E R T ★★★ Liked 1

Not bad, not bad at all. In fact, quite good in parts. It is slightly let down by some aesthetic choices that don’t look authentic to the time period that it’s set in, and also the lead actress seemed so modern in her performance. Beautiful cinematography and score though, and for the most part the folk-horror elements are decent. It’s certainly better than what the poster makes it look, but at the same time it’s certainly no The VVItch.

D Edward
Review by D Edward ★★★ 2

Somewhere between Carrie and The VVitch, there lies The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw. The isolated setting of a Village-like town lends itself to the slow, atmospheric horror that permeates the film as the witchy madness takes hold. The writing has its issues, mainly in the character motivations department, but the cinematography and performances counterbalance those flaws and make for an enjoyable horror flick.

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Björn
Review by Björn ★★★★ Liked 3

Going into this I couldn't have imagined the purely depraved places this would go to. There is an utterly meanspirited strike to The curse of Audrey Earnshaw, truly sparing nobody on its path through suffering, supernatural vengeance and towards purely evil redemption and sadness. No prisoners taken here. It's uncompromising and agressively ruthless. That having said, glimmers of hope somewhat shine through occasionally, through faith and the hope for better times, but it's all overshadowed by this growing sense of inevitability. What makes it compelling are the by deep emotion driven characters, and the tense and unpredictable course of events. We all know that evil is coming, but the shapes it's taking here is quite a sight to behold in…

movieman96
Review by movieman96 ★ Liked

Boring Movie

Audrey Earnshaw is possed by a evil spirite but soon the towns folk start noticing weird stuff going on,this then sees the revrand of the church qestion whats going on. Didnt enjoy this Movie and the acting in this was not great,just boring as from Start to End.

1 out of 10

NEVER Rewatching this Boring as Movie in Future PEROID.

Steph_h
Review by Steph_h ★★½

Nice atmosphere but a little simple maybe .. I wanted to be more horrified and perhaps I’ve seen too many horror movies since a chopped off sheep head doesn’t bug me but ehh

Winnie Jayne
Review by Winnie Jayne ★★½ Liked

Quick Review
There are times when paranoia is used as a weapon against what's physically not there but which resides in the hearts of evil, and there are also times where paranoia is proven to be right as it's; The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw depicts a harrowing tale that surely belongs to the latter. As such, period horror-drama about witches and paranoia of the occult is undoubtedly a winning subgenre at the moment, what with it having been reignited back to notoriety by Eggers' The VVitch. With his sophomore feature, Canadian writer-director Thomas Robert Lee shows similarities both in visual and hints of thematic ambition that the viewer has to stop and ponder of what the future is set for…

Travis Lytle
Review by Travis Lytle ★★½

An independent horror melodrama about a community plagued by terrible afflictions, "The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw" is a mixed bag of respectable strengths and experience-dampening weaknesses. Those strengths include committed performances, sufficient art design, and striking macabre imagery. The weaknesses, quickly undercutting what the work gets right, range from a flimsily plotted narrative with headscratching timelines and character beats to an inability of the film to generate any sort of inviting tension. That give and take results in a soggy but mostly tolerable genre outing.