Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | News | September 4, 2025
The thing about Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is that it is a painfully boring slog. And it shouldn’t be! It is a novel about an orphan who claws his way up from nothing, a toxic romance that spans decades, insane revenge plots, ghostly hauntings, and generational curses! It should be a steamy, impossible-to-put-down bodice ripper that sends everyone to their bunks.
And that’s what Emerald Fennell wants her version of Wuthering Heights to be. That and incredibly disturbing, and Fennell knows from disturbing. See Saltburn and Promising Young Woman. She is not for everyone, but she is unique, and by that I mean: In her Wuthering Heights, a lusty Catherine Earnshaw (Robbie) is not only into kneading dough, but also into the mouth of a raw fish.
This is merely the teaser trailer, the appetizer before Fennell really gets down to business.
As you can see from the billboards, the marketing is not holding back. And the score comes from Charli XCX. How can you not be intrigued?
Surprisingly, however, it’s not a fall Oscar campaign release. It comes out on Valentine’s Day. You know, for the jilted lovers who spend decades exacting their revenge.
*And yes, I know! Wuthering Heights is really the SECOND most boring novel after ‘Silas Marner,’ of course.
