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Charlotte Kirk faces demons fictional and all-too-real in this torrid tale of a persecuted woman, but the script is decidedly magic-free
15 April 2021 • 12:18pm
Charlotte Kirk stands up for herself as the tormented Grace in Neil Marshall s new film
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Dir: Neil Marshall. Cast: Charlotte Kirk, Steven Waddington, Sean Pertwee, Joe Anderson, Emma Campbell-Jones. 15 cert, 111 mins
As the closing captions of The Reckoning reveal, the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in the British Isles was Janet Horne, who was convicted in 1727 on the hearsay of her neighbours, stripped, tarred and burned alive. She’s mentioned here as a footnote to lend this bloody thriller, set during the Great Plague of 1665–6, some ballast – an aspect in which it’s otherwise found wanting.