Horror comes in clusters in The Reckoning, the latest from co-writer and director Neil Marshall.
Grace was never going to have it easy. Life in 1665 was a constant scramble against death, what with limited resources and the plague going around. Then her husband died and she was accused of being a witch, both of which took her life to a whole new level of struggle. She’s then subject to the era’s brutal methods for ferreting out witches, and despite being completely innocent going in, she may not come out so clean.
This could easily be written off as a stock horror film, one not worth a look unless you’re really into the genre, but Marshall’s involvement makes it instantly more than that. He’s the man behind the modern horror classic The Descent, and when you make a movie that great, all your subsequent ones will be looked at a little more closely (even after the flop that was 2019’s Hellboy).
Also setting this apart from your standard schlock is the fact that star Charlotte Kirk co-wrote the film as well, so it seems unlikely that this will fall into a gratuitous damsel in distress territory. Marshall managed to avoid that with The Descent, and hopefully, with the help of Kirk, he can do it again.
The Reckoning is directed by Neil Marshall and stars Charlotte Kirk, Joe Anderson, and Steven Waddington. It will be released in the US in theaters and on-demand on February 5th, 2021. Further release dates are not currently known.
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