At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Angela Englert writes about the retro folk horror of Starve Acre! “With roiling atmosphere and vibes to spare, Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre (2023) hearkens to what many regard as a simpler, purer time–a time of cycles and seasons, of neighbors agreed to a single channel of traditional values and shared memories, of old stories about the Old Ways of woodlands dark and days bewitched. I am talking, of course, of 1970s British telly and the spooky stories you could often find there–TV movies like The Stone Tape (1972) and Penda’s Fen (1974), all the Ghost Stories for Christmas taken from M.R. James and Charles Dickens, plus movies like The Wicker Man (1973) and Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971). Starve Acre is 1970s Folk Horror TV: The Movie. Watching this is taking a grainy lo-fi bath in a salt made of Amicus Productions, as close as a movie gets to the taste of tea left steeping until it’s bitter. Its vibe shall attract its tribe–if this isn’t what you’re into, Kokotajlo will not convert you. For the rest, don’t come to Starve Acre for the story; come for the experience. Bring a sweater.”

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