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Curse of the Cotswolds

"Beware of the Witch of Cotswolds!"

After Georgie's death Isabel wants to find the Witch of Huxley.

Top Cast

  • Katie Maciver

    Katie Maciver

    Whispering Night

  • Silvie Brokelbank

    Silvie Brokelbank

    Isabel

  • Bobbie Kelly

    Bobbie Kelly

    Georgie

  • Hester Fielding

    Hester Fielding

    Catherine

  • Pepper Johnson

    Pepper Johnson

    Alice

Overview

After Georgie's death Isabel wants to find the Witch of Huxley.

Rating

10.0 / 10
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1 Reviews

  • iseetwinpeaks
    iseetwinpeaks
    10 Jun 16, 2026

    To the uninitiated, Maciver’s latest exercise in aggressive stillness will be dismissed as a tedious, rain-slicked trudge through Gloucestershire. But for those of us willing to endure the punishing, un-cut 14-minute opening tracking shot of a damp limestone wall, Curse of the Cotswolds reveals itself as a devastatingly quiet autopsy of post-rural ennui. Maciver brilliantly subverts the pedestrian tropes of folk-horror, opting instead for what I can only describe as architectural dread. The real antagonist here isn't a specter or a pagan cult, but the oppressive, honey-colored syntax of the Chipping Campden vernacular. The film’s true currency is silence—specifically, the negative space between a retired philologist’s sighs. The sound design is a masterclass in acoustic violence: the agonizingly crisp crunch of artisanal sourdough, the wet, existential slap of a Barbour jacket against an overgrown hedgerow. Maciver forces the viewer to confront their own complicity in the commodification of the English countryside. It is a deeply hostile piece of cinema. It is entirely unwatchable. It is an absolute triumph.

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