The Reckoning

England, 1665: the Great Plague is sweeping the land and fear and superstition is rife among the population. Grace, a recent widow, is falsely accused of witchcraft by her unscrupulous landlord for rebuking his sexual advances and is forced to endure a brutal trial, led by the country’s most formidable Witchfinder General. As her persecutors try to break her will, she plots violent revenge against them. Acclaimed British director Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers) delivers a shocking account of one of the darkest times in England’s history.

‘After the miserable experience of making Hellboy [2019] I wanted to get back to my roots and do something that I had creative control over. Charlotte and I spent 2018 co-writing two different scripts and one of them was The Reckoning. I think mainly because it was me returning to horror for the first time in a while was probably the biggest draw initially, so that was the one that took the lead in the race. When we were making this film we had no idea how dramatically the world was going to change: that there would be a pandemic and an uprising about civil rights and persecution and treatment of minorities in society. This film suddenly seemed even more pertinent than it already was.’

Director Neil Marshall from an interview with Screen Daily