Enys Men

2022

Fantasy / Horror / Mystery

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 23% · 102 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 23% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 4311 4.3K

1970s experimental cinema

Plot summary

A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.

Director

Mark Jenkin Photo
Mark Jenkin

Top cast

John Woodvine Photo
John Woodvine as The Preacher
Morgan Val Baker Photo
Morgan Val Baker as The Boatman
Joe Gray Photo
Joe Gray as The Miner
Dion Star Photo
Dion Star as The Boatman
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832.01 MB
1280*880
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 2
830.46 MB
1280*880
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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1.67 GB
1572*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 7
1.67 GB
1572*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by brldlnew 7 / 10

1 star reviews versus this movie: which are more pretentious?

Do people have a kink for watching a movie, not understanding it then going online to give it 1 star and say "I didn't understand it"?It's a movie about a woman going crazy due to loneliness. What else do you need? A "wiki how" article?Being serious now, this is a good piece of experimental cinema. Very well shot and the 16mm aesthethic is all there. Sound design is great and eerie, and the themes do play out nicely. We meet her, know how her work / daily life goes and see herself slowly getting affected by the loneliness when she is "visited" by ghostly manifestations of stuff she read or heard or lived before, like the dead fisherman, and earlier version of herself going through a traumatic event and even a bunch of nuns she saw in a dryed milk label. A strange monolith or gravestone becomes spooky, the bald dude is probably a ghost and the flowers are turning into mold and mold grows in dead things (see? Spooky)There isn't much to say or hate here. The film is tremenduously repetitve but that's absolutely necessary to understand her condition. It does have some shots that I think confuse you more than help you understand it, and I'm lost on what the rock being throwing down the well even means. All in all, again, a good piece of experimental filmmaking.I'm giving it 7 because I took one star out for each time I burst into sleep while watching.
Reviewed by unzki 6 / 10

Emergent Storytelling

Seems most people either love it or dislike/hate it... I liked it but probably won't watch it again anytime soon. I don't have a clue about the regional legends, folktales or cultural markers the movie is said to reference.What I do have is a lot of patience and quite a bit of imagination. It also helped that it was screened at a folk horror event so I had some context for it. Thus the film did keep my interest as I tried to piece together WTH was going on, and creating a story within my head as the movie went on. The atmosphere is eerie and the movie overall is experimentally interesting so I think the director is on to something, I'd just hope his next effort would be something where I don't have to create most of the story for myself.Go see if you're ok with experimental, slow-paced stuff that doesn't offer you much answers.Avoid if you want your horror with action and explanations, and have a low threshold for experimental stuff.
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