A fair to middling film condemned by all, The Reckoning is not the mess its purported to be. Sadly, it has fallen victim to feminist politics, from which there is no recovering, and has terminally been branded misogynistic. There are scenes of torture but director Neil Marshall discretely cuts away so these episodes are more imagined than actually seen on the screen.
The film which is set in the 1660s against the background of the plague and follows Charlotte Kirk's character Grace Haverstock as she is falsely accused of witchcraft by Steven Waddington's Squire Pendleton. Enter Sean Pertwee's Witchfinder John Moorcroft and things fall apart rapidly for Grace.
The films premise is inherently interesting, the period the 1660s is a fascinating historical period and the cast do their best. (Haverstock is not really up to the job but gets better as the movie progresses.) And as far as misogyny is concerned, I can only assume that the reviewers who condemn The Reckoning on these grounds haven't seen The Devil's Rejects whose treatment of women is genuinely disturbing.
The Reckoning is not the best example of folk horror but it is certainly watchable.
The film which is set in the 1660s against the background of the plague and follows Charlotte Kirk's character Grace Haverstock as she is falsely accused of witchcraft by Steven Waddington's Squire Pendleton. Enter Sean Pertwee's Witchfinder John Moorcroft and things fall apart rapidly for Grace.
The films premise is inherently interesting, the period the 1660s is a fascinating historical period and the cast do their best. (Haverstock is not really up to the job but gets better as the movie progresses.) And as far as misogyny is concerned, I can only assume that the reviewers who condemn The Reckoning on these grounds haven't seen The Devil's Rejects whose treatment of women is genuinely disturbing.
The Reckoning is not the best example of folk horror but it is certainly watchable.