Starve Acre (2024)

British author Andrew Michael Hurley helped turn his 2019 novel into this supernatural folk horror film, co-writing the script with director Daniel Kokotajlo. It stars Matt Smith as Richard Willoughby, who has moved his wife Juliette (Morfydd Clark) and their young son Ewan into his father's farmhouse in rural Yorkshire, near the university where he gives archeological lectures. Not long after, Ewan dies from an asthma attack, and the already-distant Richard gets pulled further away from Juliette as they grieve. Richard becomes determined to find out the history of the land and what lies beneath it just like his father before him, specifically concentrating on an old oak tree that legend says can reanimate the dead. Juliette, however, withdraws inward and, after a neighbor performs a seance, becomes convinced that Ewan’s spirit is still among them. There is one moment of closeness where the married couple are having some mournful sex in bed, but as the grieving parents latch deeper onto the idea that their son can come back, things get weirder, resulting in a scene where Morfydd takes out her left milker to breastfeed a bunny and giving the "starve" in Starve Acre a whole new meaning!