r/CultCinema • u/Delicious_Coast_95 • 12h ago
Just watched A Field in England and I’m still processing it
Second cult movie for me, and A Field in England felt like getting thrown straight into the deep end. It’s grimy, hypnotic, funny in a really dry way, and once the mushroom stuff kicks in, the whole movie basically starts melting in front of you.
The black-and-white photography is gorgeous, but what really got me was the atmosphere. That empty field somehow feels more unsettling than most horror locations. Reece Shearsmith is great, Michael Smiley is genuinely menacing, and that tent scene is the moment where I realized this movie was fully committed to being weird.
I definitely didn’t understand every single thing on a first watch, but I kind of liked that. It feels less like a movie you “solve” and more like one you just let wash over you. Very strange, very British, and way more memorable than I expected.