1970s Yorkshire. Richard (Matt Smith) and Juliette's (Morfydd Clark) seemingly idyllic family life is thrown into turmoil when their son Owen (Arthur Shaw) starts acting out of character, creating an insurmountable wedge between the once happy couple.
Especially when he claims to hear strange sounds that include whistling from ‘Jack Grey’, a wood sprite according to local lore. This densely atmospheric folk-horror fantasy by ‘Apostasy’ (2017) director Daniel Kokatajlo has the great virtue of capturing a certain poetic drabness that is inseparably bound with cinematic memories of ’70s Britain.
It has a stylistic finesse that makes it very much an art chiller; and listen out for the brilliant score by British composer Matthew Herbert.
