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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.
05 Feb 2021
If you’ve ever dreamed of a film where Sean Pertwee rides a horse in slow motion, wearing a huge hat, to a booming organ score and, frankly, who hasn’t? then
The Reckoning is for you. Neil Marshall’s first film since his lacklustre
Hellboy adaptation sees the filmmaker return to British-based, small-scale horror (and Pertwee). Pulling a fictional yarn out of both the Great Plague and the English 17th-century witch hunts,
The Reckoning follows a recently widowed mother falsely accused of being in league with the devil. Marshall’s approach eschews both the grim, compelling qualities of the similarly themed
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