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.

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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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.

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.

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

I was a fool to think I could be the mother.

THE CURSE OF AUDREY EARNSHAW had some genuinely creepy and tension-building scenes but the story is where it was lacking for me. A little bit too much was left to the imagination and I didn't feel like I came away with a true sense as to what happened, why, or the significance of Audrey herself. The acting was good and the atmosphere and colour palette really matched the tone of the film but I just wanted a bit more from the story.

LOVED this folk horror. All about the atmosphere, brilliant set design, location work, costumes, cinematography, colour coding and pacing. Feels like the confident work of someone in their sixth feature, not their first. Involving story rich with texture and symbolism. Brilliant performances.

(Typical shallow observation here:
Jared Abrahamson. Oh my. Irish accented beardy guy, in longjohns and waistcoats. Just beautiful. Like someone had been reading my diary. *Faints*)

I feel like this movie really wanted to be the VVitch.

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.

I usually love atmospheric folk horror but this is very sparse, with some compelling scenes but no real catalyzing framework to retain interest. I've seen other things of this sort that I liked. Like Claire Oakley's visceral mystery of self-discovery, Make Up. By comparison, the characters here just feel so one-dimensional, like props, and we never really see progress is either plot or character. It's more a stew of creepy images and grey cinematography.

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I wish I could just say this was slow and an uninspired VVITCH-like clone but it's trying to do its own thing here which I can respect. However with the opening crawl (that got a groan from me) things started out wanting to be the second half of the movie and didn't feel like it wanted to invest its time in making you care about anything. It has a great look to it and some scenes do bring you in but there's nothing truly bridging the gap of cause and effect here.

Spends too much time showing us the same scenes, I mean how many boxes/enclosed spaces can Audrey get forced into? Of course she's going to focus her angst on the townspeople and you, mom!

thomas lee quem eh esse de onde veio onde estudou, umas das milhares de pergunta para entender como se desenvolveu a mente acima da média deste homem.
O retrato da sociedade retrógrada em todos os aspectos; mesmo com todas as mudanças em volta as pessoas preferem viver no passado, com costumes velhos assim como as vestimentas, usando a igreja como base de tudo, plsssssss

Super scary and moody!....and also kind of dumb? Did you not realize the movie you made had nothing to do with your prologue?  Also not to get existential in these troubling times but what....was the point......

A film that couldn't decide what it wanted to be and so fell short of a lot of things. What could have been an intriguing storyline with great character development was too distracted by lofty ideals of being a cross between the Omen and the Witch. So many interesting concepts teased in the beginning that were tossed aside in a desperately sad attempt at a nonsensical "twist". By trying so hard to be original, it ended up entirely forgettable.

Fell asleep for a decent portion of it. Wasn’t loving what I was awake for

This reminded me a lot of The Wind... a movie that’s not bad but not exactly compelling either. Things happen, for some reason it’s 1973 even though that has no bearing on the events in this town, and witchy stuff. I can’t explain it; I love folk horror but there was nothing here to grab me.

Sort of like The Witch without a sexy Lucifer at the end

Creates a creepy enough atmosphere early on before falling into generic scares to make the film seem more exciting.

Really wanted to like this more, but I felt like it was overburdened by it's own lack of plot of obfuscation at the end that felt rushed/forced/contrived...I'm not really sure what. It was beautiful to watch and the sound design was great. A little shaky acting from some of the more senior members of the cast, but Jessica Reynolds really shown brightly here...she was the nexus of the film, but constantly felt removed as the story's main point of view character.

Would totally take this story, dumb it down to the simplicity of the plot in the VVITch, remove the contrivance of it being anything but a period film, and stay with Audrey every step of the way...bang, 4 star film. #FixItInPre