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Jan 8, 2024 · A folk horror film directed by William Brent Bell and starring Tuppence Middleton and Ralph Ineson. It follows the search for a missing girl at a harvest festival in a village haunted by a pagan entity called Gallawgog.
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A horror film about a priest who tries to save her daughter from a cult during a harvest festival. See the trailer, cast, ratings, and reviews from critics and users on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Oct 18, 2023 · Check out the new trailer for Lord of Misrule starring Tuppence Middleton! Visit Fandango: https://www.fandango.com/?cmp=Indie_Y...
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Lord of Misrule is a horror film about a priest who searches for her missing daughter in a small town with dark secrets. The movie stars Tuppence Middleton, Ralph Ineson, and Matt Stokoe, and was released in 2023.
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- Evie Templeton
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By Katie Rife
Posted: Dec 6, 2023 9:50 pm
Ralph Ineson has a face for a folk horror movie. One of the prolific British character actor’s biggest roles was as the fanatical patriarch in The Witch, and he’s appeared in multiple medieval fantasies like The Green Knight and Game of Thrones. So once his long features and deep booming voice appear in Lord of Misrule, it’s clear what’s about to happen. Here comes the repressed, roaring back again.
Lord of Misrule has the disadvantage of appearing relatively late in the most recent folk-horror cycle, which began about a decade ago. (Folk horror is especially popular in the U.K., where this film’s writer, but not its director, are from.) That makes it difficult not to think of Midsommar when viewing this film’s version of a mural that tells the story of a pagan sacrifice, or of Ineson’s performance in Robert Eggers’ "New England folktale" as he monologues about the spirits of the land. But that’s not all of what writer Tom de Ville and director William Brent Bell – who previously worked with Ineson in Brahms: The Boy II – have going on here.
A few additional elements should give Lord of Misrule a boost. First is the inclusion of an unambiguously Christian protagonist, whose faith draws in elements of the possession subgenre with all of its crosses and grumbly-voiced demons. Then there’s the element of British murder mystery – specifically, in the Broadchurch “sinister secrets beneath an idyllic surface” mold. And yet blending all this with a Wicker Man plot about a small town sacrificing outsiders to appease an ancient god yields a result that is less than the sum of its parts.
Tuppence Middleton stars as Rebecca Holland, the recently installed vicar of a picturesque English village. As the story begins, Rebecca is watching suspiciously over a local harvest festival that peaks with a man in a mask, dubbed the “Lord of Misrule,” chasing away a demon and ruling over a rowdy night of dancing and drinking around ritual bonfires. Rebecca doesn’t approve, exactly – she plays for the other team, after all. But she accepts the pagan revelry as part of the culture of her new home. Then, at some point during the festivities, Rebecca’s young daughter Grace (Evie Templeton) disappears.
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Summerisle (The Wicker Man)
Gatlin (The Children of the Corn)
Chapel Folding (The Blood on Satan's Claw)
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That kicks off the murder-mystery portion of the proceedings, which eventually fades as Ineson’s character – a villager who teaches children about local customs at what’s euphemistically called “Nature Club” – steps to the forefront. Here, devils from before and after Christianity conquered the British Isles bewitch Rebecca’s attempt to locate her daughter. Eventually, they lead her to a goatlike figure named Galagog, and the “Black Barn” where he waits for this daughter of God to come and confront him.
Lord of Misrule blends the folk horror, possession, and murder-mystery genres in a way that lessens the impact of all three. While the film’s invented version of British folklore gives it some interesting texture and imagery, it lacks a strong point of view.
A folk horror film about a vicar's daughter disappearing in a pagan village. The film mixes Christian and pagan elements, but lacks a distinctive point of view and suffers from too much exposition.
- Katie Rife
Official Lord of Misrule Movie Trailer 2023 | Subscribe https://abo.yt/ki | Tuppence Middleton Movie Trailer | Cinema: 8 Dec 2023, Digital: 8 Dec 2023 | Mo...
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Directed by William Brent Bell. Beware the Harvest. When the daughter of the town’s new priest goes missing during the harvest festival, a desperate search begins, uncovering the town’s dark history and resurfacing tales of a mysterious, malevolent spirit that demands sacrifice. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
