Corin Hardy directs Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic and Michael Smiley in this Irish rural horror about a family plagued by fairytale forest “folk”.

I’m all for the slow burn in a horror but the first hour of The Hallow moves at such a grinding dawdle I almost gave up. Luckily the last 25 minutes provides a fair bit more of the old school (and excellent) creature design, a burning scythe and shifting loyalties within the family. A show stopping last act just about redeems the endeavour, gifting us with a director worth keeping a bloodshot eye on.

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