From the Old Earth

1981 [CY]

Horror

IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 82 82

Plot summary

As William Jones digs in the garden of his council house he finds a strange looking stone head. During the night his wife has horrible dreams, forcing William to move the head out of the house. In turn, he takes the head to an archaeologist at Bangor University who is an expert on Celtic artefacts and trying to dig up the remains of the Celts elsewhere. In order to try and understand the head, he goes home with her but things start to go wrong at night there as well, bringing the horrors of a half-human half-animal creature to the housewives. One by one the archaeologist's family is horrified leading to death and another sacrifice to the ancient gods of the Celts.

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Clive Roberts as Policeman
J.O. Roberts as Arthur Vaughan
720p.WEB
549.73 MB
1280*958
Cy 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 59 min
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Reviewed by 6 / 10

From the Old Earth

Reviewed by 6 / 10

From the old stone head.

After finding Blood on the Stars (1975-also reviewed) to be a charming film, I took a look at the rest of the online Abertoir Film Festival, and was happy to find another obscure Welsh Horror being presented with English subtitles for the first time, leading to me digging into the old earth.Note: review contains some plot details.View on the film:Travelling down to the bottom of the garden, director Wil Aaron & cinematographer Graham Edgar slice open a rustic Folk Horror atmosphere in jagged tracking shots rolling over the mesmerizing real Capel Eithen archaeological site in Anglesey, landing on distorted panning shots towards the delightfully designed stone head dug up by William Jones.Bringing a welcomed touch of comedy to proceedings as Jones considers what he could sell the item for, the screenplay by White Thomas bursts open ambitious Folk Horror flashbacks which peel open the events which led to the creation of the Celtic artifacts , with lively family drama that nabs Jones and all his family into what originally starts as nightmares, clawing into their lives, from the old Earth.
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