The first test screening of Emerald Fennell’s ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, revealed a film described as “aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive” with “hyper-sexualized imagery.”
— Film Crave (@_filmcrave) August 5, 2025
– Emerald Fennell’s upcoming Wuthering Heights had its’ first test screening and the audience reactions are apparently mixed.
– The film, described by one attendee is aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive.
Spoilers beneath the cut:
– The film opens with a public hanging that quickly descends into grotesque absurdity, as the condemned man ejaculates mid-execution, sending the onlooking crowd into a kind of orgiastic frenzy. A nun even fondles the corpse’s visible erection.
– Later, a woman is strapped into a horse’s reins for a BDSM-tinged encounter. There are several masturbation scenes shot in intimate, clinical, and purposefully discomforting styles.
– The camera lingers on suggestive textures: egg yolks running through fingers, dough being kneaded with quiet aggression, a slug sliding slowly down glass.
The source is the rightly hated WorldofReel, so I wrote more spoilers than I normally would so you don’t have to give him clicks.