The Reckoning2021
“Fear spreads like The Plague.”
Directed by Neil Marshall
🏆 42 wins & 15 nominations
The premise
In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.
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Set in plague-ravaged 17th-century England, The Reckoning follows a young widow whose refusal to submit to a powerful man's desires makes her the target of a brutal witch-hunt. Imprisoned and subjected to relentless torment by a notorious witch-hunter, she must fight to hold onto her sanity and her truth as dark visions begin to blur the line between reality and something far more sinister. It is a raw, visceral portrait of a woman pushed to her absolute limits by a society weaponising fear against the vulnerable.
Content: Torture Scenes, Graphic Violence, Sexual Threat And Coercion, Psychological Torment, Depictions Of Plague And Death
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