
Fleeing for their lives, a small party abandon their Civil War confederates and escape through an overgrown field. Thinking only of what lays behind, they are ambushed by two dangerous men and made to search the field. Psychedelia, madness, and chaotic forces slowly overtake the group as they question what treasure lies within the malignant field.... (Full plot summary below)
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Fleeing for their lives, a small party abandon their Civil War confederates and escape through an overgrown field. Thinking only of what lays behind, they are ambushed by two dangerous men and made to search the field. Psychedelia, madness, and chaotic forces slowly overtake the group as they question what treasure lies within the malignant field.
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinWheatley’s extraordinary film shakes you back and forth with a rare ferocity, but the net result is stillness. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThe black-and-white photography, magically lit and textured, is like the primitive canvas on which the contemporary world starts to be daubed. |
| New York TimesAndy WebsterThe actors are uniformly impressive, and Mr. Wheatley’s longtime cinematographer, Laurie Rose, shooting in black and white, combines stunning pastoral compositions with bursts of graphic violence punctuated by blazing flintlocks. |
| Paste MagazineCurtis Woloschuk[A Field in England] demonstrates how genuinely spellbinding cinema can be when it's wielded by an artist who doesn't so much play by his own rules as forego such restrictions entirely. |
| Movie MezzanineTom CliftAs the story reaches an anguished kind of climax, so too does Wheatley go full Kubrick, abandoning narrative entirely for a sequence of full-blown psychotropic madness. |
| ScreenCrushBritt HayesA brilliant, uncompromising and deliberate experiment set in a very specific time, in a very specific place, and under incredibly specific conditions, A Field in England is a wonderfully bizarre microcosm of abstraction. |
| AV ClubMike D'AngeloIt’s the period itself that’s front and center here — not in the usual sense of historical accuracy, but as a sort of theater of the bizarre that allows Wheatley and his wife, screenwriter Amy Jump, to indulge in dementia. |
| Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreSo ambitious, cerebral, witty and thought-provoking that you forget it's a horror film. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovIn many ways, A Field in England is a funhouse mirror of audience expectations and something of a filmic Rorschach test. |
| Film.comWilliam GossI’ve given A Field in England two tries now and each time found it to be occasionally ferocious and funny, severely trippy for stretches and at times outright tedious. With that said, I still can’t wait to see what the man does next. |