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Charlotte Kirk as Grace Haverstock in The Reckoning, which she also co-wrote Credit: Vertigo Neil Marshall has accidentally made a pandemic movie. The Reckoning – out this week in America, and heading to the UK in April – is the director’s sixth feature film, and his first since the flop of the soulless Hollywood-studio reboot Hellboy two years ago. A return to smaller-scale independent filmmaking, The Reckoning takes place in England during the 17th-century witch-trials, in a country ravaged by the Great Plague. Its resonance today is one that Marshall couldn’t have imagined when filming in the summer of 2019. “It’s too weird for words,” he chuckles on a Zoom call from the home of his Bexleyheath in-laws, with whom he’s currently “bubbling”. ....
The Reckoning : Review: Neil Marshall Returns to Traditional Horror With Routine Tale of Witch-Hunting The film s punchy visuals are undercut by a meandering story that strains credibility. Richard Kuipers, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Neil Marshall With: Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington, Joe Anderson, Suzanna Magowan, Sarah Lambie, Ian Whyte, Callum Goulden, Leon Ockenden, Emma Campbell Jones, Mark Ryan, Bill Fellows, Oliver Trevena. Running time: Running time: 111 MIN. Courtesy of RLJE Films Following the misfire of 2019’s “Hellboy” reboot, “The Descent” director Neil Marshall returns to his traditional horror roots with “The Reckoning,” an uneven melodrama about an innocent young widow accused of witchcraft during the Great Plague of London, 1665. Striving to be a rousing tale of female empowerment in the face of brutal patriarchy and religious extremism, “The Reckoning” has some powerful moments b ....