The Empty Acre

⭐ Featured Review

"The American dream backfires in grand style in this poetic, often fascinating tale of tragedy. The suffocating aura of indescribable, almost irrational dread in this movie comes much closer to the flavor of H. P. Lovecraft's darkest writings than any of the movies actually adapted from that author's work. A newly married couple with a 6-month-old son buys an isolated Kansas farm which contains a mysteriously barren acre of flat, lifeless land. Late at night, a shapeless black shadowy mass emerges from the ground and swallows up nearby residents and passersby. The victims' scream..."