[Watch]@~ The Reckoning (2021) Stream Free Online: When a detective is called in to investigate the roadside execution of his partner, he discovers at the crime scene a data card from a video camera. The card contains footage shot by two runaway teenagers who are making a documentary about the drug related death of a sibling.
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The detective retraces the teen's journey and soon begins to uncover a trail of the dead that leads all the way back to police headquarters. Neil Marshall is a fairly divisive director, having directed cult horror classics like 2002's Dog Soldiers and 2005's The Descent but also abominations like 2019's Hellboy. His newest directorial effort, folk horror film The Reckoning, ends up being closer to the latter than the former.
The Reckoning stars Marshall's real-life fiancée Charlotte Kirk as Grace Haverstock, a grieving woman who desperately tries to care for her infant daughter amongst the plague in 1600s-era England. When Grace fights off the advances of her violent landlord (Steven Waddington), she is accused of being a witch. Throughout the rest of the runtime, Grace is forced to fight for her life against prosecution and some potential demonic forces lusting after her while she's in captivity.
The most frustrating thing about The Reckoning is that it contains so many aspects that could work on their own, but do not flow together as a whole. The problem is that the film doesn't know what it wants to be. It is mostly a dark period drama akin to The Crucible, but there are lots of horror elements that really throw off the whole film. If The Reckoning dropped its convoluted horror-tinged themes and just focused on its effective depiction of disease and the madness of false witchcraft accusations, it could have been something worthwhile. However, it tries to juggle horror, action/adventure and drama all at once, never managing to solidify a central theme.
Despite its marketing and the fact that it's directed by Neil Marshall, The Reckoning isn't really a horror movie; it's a drama that parades as one. Sequences feature dramatic Dutch angles and suspenseful music, and there are bloody deaths, but all of these so-called horror elements feel forced. One of the most memorable sequences of the film features a gory death involving a horse and carriage, and even that feels out of place. The Reckoning's plot is just a woman being oppressed, persecuted and tortured, sprinkled with mild elements of different sub-genres of horror.
Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the film is the inclusion of a demonic horned character. Trailers for the film made it seem as though this demon was a very important part of The Reckoning's plot, possibly the main aspect of the movie that would classify it as a horror film. However, the demon, who is credited as The Devil (Ian Whyte), is only in brief dream sequences and his presence is barely acknowledged. It almost seems as though there is an entire subplot that ended up on the cutting room floor.