4 Star

Beware, Local Legend.

Once again Black Coppice Films bring us a chilling country tale steeped in ancient lore, in association with Jakuzi Entertainment, Hexagon Films, Jer Ali Productions, and Saint Cyprian Films, they have brought Chris Shane Sanders‘ (Ripper Revealed, Bring Me a Skin for Dancing In) story to life, and with Chris in front, and behind the camera, we have his usual take on a middle-of-nowhere tale. It’s good old-fashioned British horror. Marvellous.

City couple Sharon and Michael Delvin (Tom Hendryk, Mystery of the Tattoo, Slow Horses (TV Series)) want a country break, and they have headed to rural Warwickshire where they have rented a farm cottage from Arthur Abbott (Paul Preston, The Joy of Falling, Irish Ashes), with no internet or phone signal, they settle in for a relaxing break, but don’t go into the woods, there are ruins from the 17th century, and they are dangerous. The pair can tell that Arthur isn’t telling the full story. It makes them and you uncomfortable. They finally learn that during the English civil war, that there were witch hunts and that Morag Hazel (Julie Bevan, Buffalo Girls (TV Mini Series), The House of Eliott (TV Series)) and her daughters were beheaded and there bodies buried in the woods, but before they died they cursed the landowner Rufus Fairfax (Chris Shane Sanders) and his family line.

Sharon is a naughty woman, and she wants to get out in the country with Michael for a bit of together time, when she spots something in the undergrowth, an old jug that has mist coming out of it.

Across the pond magazine editor Spencer Jones (Denny Nolan, Night of the Tommyknockers, Macabre Mountain) needs a scoop to keep the magazine alive. He plans to send his top reporter Sam Templar (Radostin Radev) and his photographer wife Mary (Lyndsey Sheppard, Ripper Revealed, Nest of Vampires) to rural England to see what is going on and get the story they need to stay alive. But there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Settle down to have your nerves jangled, and it is always great to see Jon-Paul Gates (London Bridge is Falling Down: Build it up!, Vampires True or Fiction Documentary) as Father Thomas Jackson in this old-fashioned British horror.

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