“Starve Acre” (*1/2 out of four) was a joyless horror story about a family (Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Arthur Shaw, Erin Richards) that are thrown into disarray when the son starts acting demented. Prosaic story moves like molasses and even looks drab and dull; good performances are unable to give this any pulse or life. Final 10 minutes finally deliver some jolts but it’s hardly worth sticking around till then.