A three and a quarter hour documentary looking into the history of folk horror in film and television.
I will admit that my understanding of folk horror was that it was about pagan rituals, something strange in the woods and, anything involving witches. So, by extension I considered that the arguably most famous and potentially only films made in this genre ie 'the infernal trio', were Blood on Satan's Claw, Witchfinder General and of course The Wicker Man.
This documentary, divided into 6 sections, has various people, all who seem to write about folk horror, use often extraordinary words I've never heard before and frequently intense explanations to introduce us to the wide and wild world of folk horror. It is long and for the most part it is talking head/clip/talking head etc but you can't say you don't emerge from this without a far more detailed understanding of the subject and having seen clips of seemingly every folk horror film ever made.
I will admit that my understanding of folk horror was that it was about pagan rituals, something strange in the woods and, anything involving witches. So, by extension I considered that the arguably most famous and potentially only films made in this genre ie 'the infernal trio', were Blood on Satan's Claw, Witchfinder General and of course The Wicker Man.
This documentary, divided into 6 sections, has various people, all who seem to write about folk horror, use often extraordinary words I've never heard before and frequently intense explanations to introduce us to the wide and wild world of folk horror. It is long and for the most part it is talking head/clip/talking head etc but you can't say you don't emerge from this without a far more detailed understanding of the subject and having seen clips of seemingly every folk horror film ever made.