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I grew up in Suffolk, UK, one of the old stamping grounds of Matthew Hopkins, the nefarious witch-hunter whose zealotry would one day be captured on screen by Vincent Price in the 1968 horror movie "Witchfinder General." As a fan of legends and lore, I once researched a piece on local witchcraft for my A-Levels, spending many an afternoon in the Suffolk Records Office. It was a delightfully eerie experience, sitting in a darkened room peering down the lens of a microfilm viewer at 300-year-old accounts of bewitchment, familiars, and curses.

One story still sticks in my mind. A witch took a dislike to a man in her village and sent an army of spiders to torment him. Eyewitnesses supposedly saw hundreds of the things swarming his house and weaving their webs. His frightened neighbors responded by burning the place down.

The thing that struck me most about these stories was...

Albatross Trailer. Niall MacCormick‘s Albatross (2011) movie trailer stars Felicity Jones, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond, and Peter Vaughan. Albatross‘ plot synopsis: “Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth’s father that threatens to have devastating consequences.”

A decent looking coming-of-age drama. The beginning of this movie trailer almost makes the film look like a comedy though, Young Adult style.

Albatross also stars Angus Barnett, Kenneth Collard, James Richard Marshall, Harry Treadaway, and Alexis Zegerman.

Watch the Albatross movie trailer and leave your thoughts on it in the comments section below. For more Albatross photos, videos, and information, visit our Albatross Page. Albatross will be released in limited Us theaters through IFC Films on January 13, 2012.