Overview

• A first test screening in Dallas elicited mixed reactions with viewers describing the film as aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive.
• It opens with a public hanging scene that escalates into an orgiastic frenzy, including necrophilic undertones.
• Subsequent intimate sequences encompass clinical masturbation and a BDSM-tinged encounter involving horse reins.
• Fennell enhances the narrative with stylized visual symbolism—lingering shots of egg yolks, dough kneading and slug trails—that diverge sharply from previous adaptations.
• Casting Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff has reignited age and ethnicity debates, while the film remains on track for its Feb. 14, 2026 release.