Eight for Silver—A bone-crunching gothic movie.
"Eight for Silver", a genre of thriller and gothic horror, revolves around a village plagued by a mysterious, grotesque beast, after a brutal curse was unleashed(a curse that doesn't stop until it exacts its revenge).
In a small quiet village, landowner Seamus Laurent (Alistair Petrie)and his elders claimed the land of a Romani clan that wasn't theirs because of greed. He and his elders tried negotiating with the Romani clan and made them an offer to walk away from the land, but they refused.
Seamus along with some men went, killed all the gypsies and burnt their houses. One of the Romani had his feet and hands chopped off with an axe and hanged up like a scarecrow; while another(a lady) was buried alive. She laid a silver curse on them before dying(a curse that was forged with silver).
Seamus the head of the village, had a wife and two kids—Isabelle, Charlotte, and Edward. Not long after the massacre, everyone began having nightmares of the scarecrow and this silver curse, Seamus and his family inclusive.
One day Seamus' children and some other children of the village ventured into the land and saw this scarecrow—it was from that moment the silver curse began to wreak its havoc.
One of the kids became possessed and bit Edward. Charlotte raised an alarm and Edward was brought home. Seamus quickly sent for a doctor, the doctor then examined, treated Edward promising to return in a day or two to check up.
Meanwhile, Charlotte refused to utter a word about what had happened, as she already took an oath with other kids to keep mute. So it was assumed that it was an animal bite, perhaps a wolf.
That night Edward disappeared and not long after another kid disappeared and was later found dead. Seamus and his family became worried as they couldn't find their son while the village was thrown into a state of confusion and fear.
In their search for help, they met a man—John McBride (Boyd Holbrook), a pathologist with a dark past connected to spiritual events. John McBride had lost his family—wife and daughter, to a gothic curse and picked interest when he heard of Seamus' missing son and the strange happenings in the village. John started investigating the murders and discovered the horrifying truth– the beastly creature that hunted the village was tied to the silver curse, the same curse that had claimed the lives of his family.
John, Seamus, alongside the elders, must find a way to end the silver curse before it wipes the lives of everyone in the village.
Did they succeed? or was Seamus, his family and the people in the village consumed by this curse due to their greed?
Eight for Silver is known as The Curse in some release and it’s a must-watch for lovers of horror. The movie teaches a valuable lesson of what greed can cause, i definitely recommend.
It’s available to watch on Netflix and LokLok. I’d give it 8/10 rating.
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