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Gwen's relentlessly grim outlook may wear on some viewers, but it remains a reasonably gripping, solidly assembled descent into atmospheric period horror.

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Noel Murray Los Angeles Times Writer-director William McGregor's debut feature film, "Gwen," has the eerie quiet and grim portent of a supernatural horror story, but it's a genre picture more in form than content. Aug 15, 2019 Full Review Guy Lodge Variety The film looks and sounds the part of an elegantly haunted gothic horror movie, only to skip past standard chiller expectations to disquiet its audience in more grounded, historically rooted ways. Aug 7, 2019 Full Review Mark Kermode Kermode & Mayo's Film Review Atmospheric, creepy, and it had a real sense of bitter chill. Very, very well played by the cast. Jul 25, 2019 Full Review Calum Cooper Source (Scotland) A spellbinding debut that rips apart your emotional security with insidious, slow-burning precision. Rated: 5/5 Jul 14, 2024 Full Review Daisy Leigh-Phippard Screen Queens Despite its concise 84-minute run time, events run out of steam at the midpoint. Things are bleak but how much bleaker can they get? Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Charles Koplinski Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam The most effectively atmospheric film of the year, William McGregor's directorial debut is a stunner that engulfs the viewer in a dark world of paranoia, greed and sickness that produces a brand of horror that's all too relatable and timely. Rated: 3.5/4.0 Nov 21, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Diana S Here's another one of those movies where the characters live in the 19th century, in the Welsh countryside in this case, yet they relate and express themselves as if they're from a 21st century Netflix series. I guarantee you that if you're a farmer in 19th century Wales and your family is starving, there is no "I can't" in "butcher the lame horse for its meat." It didn't help that especially the Gwen character just *looked* like a modern teenage girl. Also, I doubt there was much Sunday family frolicking in the starved countryside of Wales in the 19th century when they had to wash their clothes outside in a bucket and slaughter their own food. I could be wrong! But I don't think so. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/04/24 Full Review Chris P (DVD, 2/25/24, horror/drama)) Quick shot: A mother and her two daughters struggle to survive, isolated, in the English countryside. "Gwen" is an atmospheric, slow-burn tense movie. It does a great job establishing the isolation and struggle of a mother and her two daughters while their father is away fighting in a war. However, after it was over I found that I had more questions than the film gave me answers. The atmosphere was visually stunning but it burned a little too slow for my taste. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/24 Full Review Hugo S A woman and her two daughters struggle to survive in rural Wales. Cholera is killing the community while the family sees their farm falling apart as the animals start dying in a mysterious way. "Gwen" is a gothic horror movie with an impressive setting and impeccable performances. The movie excels in creating an unsettling ambiguity: is the family's misfortune caused by supernatural forces or is it all driven by the inevitable change of industrial revolution? Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Set in a farming community in Wales, a young girl named Gwen, tries to keep things running when her mother begins showing symptoms of a strange illness. This is a very well made folk horror film where you're never quite sure where it's headed. I liked the performances from the cast and the mystery surrounding the story which kept me engaged throughout. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Is it a wolf in sheeps clothing or a sheep in wolves clothing? An unrelentingly bleak drama couched in the tropes and themes of horror movies, telling the story of a Welsh farming family attempting to resist the exploitation and violence of a local mine owner in the context of the industrial revolution. The striking landscape (can I see Cadair Idris in the background?) is as much of a character as any of the leads themselves. I'm not usually one to shy away from bleakness in films but must confess the unrelentingness of it in this did get to me a little. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member It's not a horror movie. It is a sad story of how people lived in the Scottland/England area in the 1800s. Very sad. Gwen is a lovely girl living the horrors of a hard life back then. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Director
William McGregor
Producer
Hilary Bevan Jones, Tom Nash
Screenwriter
William McGregor
Production Co
Endor Productions, BFI Film Fund
Genre
Horror, Drama
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 16, 2019
Runtime
1h 24m
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