Gwen

2018

1 hr. 24 min.

Horror

Drama

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Critics Consensus

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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I would hardly consider this a horror film. It works well as a period piece, but that’s about it. Very bleak.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

09/11/21

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William McGregor

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Eleanor Worthington-Cox

Gwen

Maxine Peake

Elen

Richard Harrington

Edward Morris

Mark Lewis Jones

Mr Wynne

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Doctor Wren

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Charles Koplinski

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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

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Ryan Larson

Ghastly Grinning

Gwen is a taut little thriller that offers some truly frightening moments, both ethereally and morally. McGregor has a deft hand with an eye for moody landscapes and a handle on the beats for a solid horror entry.

Jun 24, 2020

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Director: William McGregor
Executive Producer: Adam Partridge
Screenwriter: William McGregor
Production Co: Endor Productions, BFI Film Fund
Genre: Horror, Drama
Original Language: English (United Kingdom)
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 16, 2019

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