Movie Review – Eight for Silver (2021)
Starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, and Áine Rose Daly.
SYNOPSIS:
In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger – and exorcise some of his own demons in the process.
While the post-
Twilight era ushered in an abundance of inventive and left-field vampire films, werewolf cinema hasn’t ever really had the same reactionary, watershed moment. But Sean Ellis’ (
Metro Manilla, Anthropoid)
Eight for Silver does just enough tinkering with the prototypical lycanthrope formula to deliver an entertaining time, in spite of its excessive length and oft-plodding pace.
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Beware the wolf, but not like before. There aren’t full moons or sexy werewolves this time around. Instead,
Eight For Silver delivers a refreshingly horrifying take on werewolf lore and period piece horror. Sean Ellis’ new film is bloody, visceral, and a hell of a good time.
In the late 1800s, John McBride (Boyd Holbrook) is on the hunt for the beast that killed his wife and daughter. His search takes him to a small village, the top of which resides the landowner Seamus Laurant (Alistair Petrie) and his family: his wife Isabelle (Kelly Reilly), daughter Charlotte (Amelia Crouch), and son Edward (Max Mackintosh). Shortly before McBride arrives, a land dispute between Seamus and the Romani the rightful owners of the land ends in tragedy, resulting in the leader of the Romani placing a curse on the colonizers inhabiting their land. Nightmares soon take root in the minds of the children, leading them to the burial ground of the massacre, and right to a set of silver an