31 Days of Folk Horror 10
Kill List. Debt, marriage problems and a contract that seems too good to be true

Ben Wheatley's Kill List is one of the great examples of folk horror hiding inside another genre

And one hell of a final act

https://folknhell.s.gy/killlist

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#Folktober movie 7: Hagazussa (2017). A woman lives alone in the Alps in the 1500s. Not much of a plot hook, is it? That’s because there’s not much plot. It is film minimalism taken to the extreme. No real plot or characters, just slow, plodding imagery and vague attempts at gross-outs. Skip it.

31 Days of Folk Horror 9
Enys Men

A standing stone
A flower that shouldn't be changing
A landscape that remembers everything that has happened there

Enys Men is #folkhorror stripped down to atmosphere, repetition and place

https://folknhell.s.gy/enys

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Herbs, plants, and flowers are an essential part of any folk horror. Here's some Aconitum, also known as Monkshood, Blue Rocket, Devil's Helmet, and WOLFSBANE.

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31 Days of Folk Horror 8
Sator

A remote cabin. A fractured family history. A forest that seems to contain something ancient.
It's slow, strange and intensely atmospheric.
It's also bloody terrifying

https://folknhell.s.gy/sator

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#Folktober movie 6: The Witch (2015). A banished Puritan family is tormented by something in the woods, and the oldest daughter bears the brunt of it. It’s beautifully shot and well acted, and solid folk horror, but it’s more a study of a collapsing family than anything really scary. It’s fine.

31 Days of Folk Horror 7
Moloch

If someone says "we found something in the bog", leave

Moloch takes Dutch peatlands, buried history and family secrets and turns them into an extremely atmospheric nightmare

https://folknhell.s.gy/moloch

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31 Days of Folk Horror 6
November

November is Estonian folklore rendered in gorgeous monochrome

Werewolves, spirits, farm machinery, death, desire and strange bargains

Beautiful, funny and very, very strange

https://folknhell.s.gy/november

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31 Days of Folk Horror 5
Tumbbad

Indian folk horror with a story of hunger, inheritance, mythology & greed with a landscape that feels as though it has been rotting beautifully for centuries

What's the best non-British folk-horror film you've seen?

https://folknhell.s.gy/tumbbad

#folktober

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#Folktober movie 5: The Lair of the White Worm (1988). The discovery of a giant reptile skull brings back an ancient snake cult. Is it a good movie? No, but it’s sexy, weird, internally consistent, and most of all, fun, and that makes it a good watch. Alt. title: Doctor Who versus the Snake Woman.

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Over on my Stock Art Patreon, the theme this month is Folk Horror! All month, I'll be releasing a new human-drawn piece of art, and at the end, patrons get it all to use in their commercial projects. #folktober #inktober

31 Days of Folk Horror: 4
The Witch

A family.
A farm.
A forest.
A goat.
And the gradual realisation that leaving the community was a fatal mistake

Black Phillip says hello.

https://folknhell.s.gy/witch

#folktober

#Folktober movie 4: Lord of Misrule (2023). A vicar’s daughter vanishes during the local harvest festival, and the search reveals something dark and old may be involved. This one was solid. The plot is good, the cult is slowly revealed, and the ending has a good twist on dealing with old gods.

FolknHell heads to a remote Devon church for The Borderlands

Vatican sceptics and an older belief system under the floorboards. Constant explanations about cameras spoil the format but the ending finally remembers how to terrify

https://folknhell.s.gy/bdrlnds

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#Folktober movie 3: The Company of Wolves (1984). A girl dreams of a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood filled with werewolves. I wish I could say this was full of fairy tale logic, but it’s more dream logic, and thus inconsistent and messy. Everything feels very false and artificial. Not great.

31 Days of Folk Horror. 3
The Company of Wolves

Once upon a time, there was a girl who went into the woods. And then there were wolves. And dreams. And transformations.

And some very uncomfortable things being said about men.

https://folknhell.s.gy/tcow

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#Folktober movie 2: The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971). A farmer finds an odd face while plowing, and soon a cult is plaguing the village. It’s one of the first films to be labeled “folk horror”, and I have notes. There’s the bones of a good story there, but it needs another couple of drafts to shine.

Starting on BBC2 at 00.15. the greatest folk horror film.

A late night appointment with The Wicker Man

#folktober

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