Enys Men

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When considering the DNA of Enys Men, it’s maybe predictable that many of the films that made it onto the following list are drawn from the 70s – the decade in which the film is grounded. Inevitably, when thinking of this era in Britain, a number of entries on the list are not in fact films at all, but highly innovative, haunting, weird or eerie, productions made for the small screen. Some of them are free-form, others experimental or oblique, yet all are uncompromisingly authored. a b Kiang, Jessica (27 May 2022). " 'Enys Men' Review: A Gorgeously Grainy Folk Horror Steeped in Style but Starved of Story". Variety. The BFI are set to release the British horror film, Enys Men (2022) on Blu-ray & DVD this May 2023 in the UK. In fact it’s a dual release which includes both formats.

a b Morris, Steven (6 January 2023). " 'Interest is off the scale': Cornish cinema fans snub Avatar for local folk horror". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 January 2023. Mary Woodvine (Poldark, Judge John Deed), who played Sandra in Bait, plays the volunteer in Enys Men. She reunites with Bait co-star Edward Rowe (The Witcher, House of the Dragon) who is the boatman. Based in West Cornwall, and previously working in theatre, film and television for over 30 years, Woodvine is in almost every scene of the film and works with minimal dialogue and with the camera following her in extreme close-up.Shot by BAFTA winning visionary filmmaker Mark Jenkin ( Bait), on grainy 16mm colour film and employing his trademark post-synched sound. Enys Men (pronounced ‘Mayne’) is technically innovative yet eerily evocative of the period it inhabits. Filmed on location around the disused tin mines of West Penwith, it is also an enigmatic ode to Cornwall’s rich traditions of folklore and the region’s rugged natural beauty. What all of this means is never stated outright. Things don't "add up." That's fine with me. I was riveted by every moment of this haunting weird film. "Enys Men" made me legitimately uneasy. These visions are eerie not simply because they are derived from the rural landscape but because they only intimate their presence; they are glimpsed terrors. The eerie resists revealing its horrors head on. "The mood of the eerie is lingering," Soar believes, "a sensation that is hard to shake off. The eerie doesn't deal in jump scares, but involves a nagging, troubling sense of doubt and uncertainty that colours all activities."

Enys Men is written and directed by Mark Jenkin. It stars Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe and John Woodvine. As identified by Macfarlane and others, the eerie acts as a kind of counter-tradition to the romantic Pastoralism of English art; rather than portraying the English countryside as a place of chocolate-box fantasy, it has often zoned in on specific rural localities and tried to convey their haunted essences that are beyond the understanding of urbanite considerations. In April 2023 Enys Men will be released on BFI Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) with contextual extras and on BFI Player where it will join Bait and a selection of Jenkin’s early work. Sales are through Protagonist Pictures. Enys Men is a different beast to Bait: more abstract, filmed in highly saturated colour and set in a landscape of eerie coastal moorland in the spring of 1973. The film’s star, other than Boswens, is an unnamed wildlife volunteer played by Mary Woodvine, Jenkin’s real-life partner and a familiar face in his other films. Every day, the volunteer stops to drop a stone into the murky depths of an abandoned tin mine (which I also visit en route to meet Jenkin, nearly falling off its gale-blasted foundations), then notes down her observations of a rare, curious flower growing nearby.Acclaimed independent Cornish horror feature Enys Men, from film-maker Mark Jenkin, was released earlier this month by the BFI. The low budget film was made using Jenkin’s unique workflow and is a masterclass in how to incorporate university learning into hands-on film-making. Haunters of the Deep (1984, 61 mins): a Children’s Film Foundation adventure that shares many of the same West Cornwall locations as Enys Men, and made quite an impression on its director. Sitges' Universe Expands With New Titles From the Most Contemporary, Audacious Fantastic Genre". sitgesfilmfestival.com. 28 July 2022 . Retrieved 8 October 2023. UK / 2022 / colour / 90 mins / English language with optional subtitles for the Deaf and partial hearing, plus optional audio description / original aspect ratio 1.45:1 // BD50: 1080p, 24fps, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 audio and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo audio / DVD9: PAL, 25fps, Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo audio Mark Jenkin and Mary Woodvine in conversation with Mark Kermode (2022, 29 mins): the film’s director and its star discuss the making of Enys Men in an onstage Q&A filmed at BFI Southbank

On-stage Q&A interview with Mark Jenkin and Mary Woodvine by film critic Mark Kermode at BFI Southbank (2022)Enys Men is pronounced ‘mane’ and means stone island in Cornish. Menhirs, or standing stones (from the Cornish for long stone) are monumental stones, prolific across Cornwall, typically dating from the Bronze Age.