The Limits of Psychedelic Transformation: Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England (2013)
Green Letters July 7, 2026 Jennifer S. Henke
This contribution discusses Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England (2013), a British folk horror film featuring a key ‘trip scene’, against the backdrop of contemporary discourse that frames the psychedelic experience as a tool for ecological awareness. Drawing on film, fungi, psychedelic studies, and the environmental humanities, I argue that the film raises the expectation of a (magic)...