Emerald Fennell’s Hyper-Sexualized ‘Wuthering Heights’ Gets Frosty Reception at First Test Screening — World of Reel

Emerald Fennell’s Hyper-Sexualized ‘Wuthering Heights’ Gets Frosty Reception at First Test Screening — World of Reel

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” held its first test screening last night in Dallas, and early impressions suggest a rocky road ahead.Audience reaction inside the theater was largely negative, with visible restlessness. The film, described by one attendee as aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive, leans hard into Fennell’s now-familiar brand of stylized depravity. It’s a deliberately unromantic take on Brontë’s novel, stripped of emo…