'A Field in England' (2013) – Ben Wheatley.
The frequently intriguing British film-maker Ben Wheatley's monochromatically majestic, fascinatingly provocative, visually sumptuous, serotonin-spiked shocker 'A Field in England' has a viciously skewed perspective that you rarely see in the contemporary cookie cutter horror films of today! Wheatley's wickedly windswept, fiercely original folk horror phantasmagoria is a gloriously panoramic, psilocybin percolated, hauntingly strange hybridic strain of 'Jabberwocky' and 'Killer's Moon', albeit if wrong-headedly reimagined by a deliriously DMT-fried Nicolas Roeg and Ken Russell at their luridly perception altering best! Take a left-handed terror trip into the fright fantastic in Wheatley's sinister, shadow steeped doom-fest 'A Field in England'! The minimalist, starkly droning soundtrack eerily transporting you into the witheringly bleak, dirty-fingered, desperately downbeat 17th century milieu, inexorably drawing you ever deeper into this increasingly devilish diorama wherein these lost shambling souls cast deliriously adrift in this purgatorial field of screams disturbingly meet their altogether malefic maker! The muscular ensemble acting has a splendidly visceral intimacy, and Amy Jump's vivid, deliciously distempered, grimly black humoured text is chewier than a copper-lined codpiece!!
'Taking a cavalier approach to horror convention Ben Wheatley's deliciously doomy Field of Screams will seriously folk up your mind!!!!' - Weirdlingwolf @ Dirty Kunst Video.
'This Ben Wheatley dude is clearly a fungi....and his potently mind-expanding 'A Field in England' is one helluva drug, man!!!!!!' - Goosey Lucy@Buxom Bloodfiends.
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