Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Release date: 2021-09-09
Runtime: 193
Country: United States of America

Explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade.

Director: Kier-La Janisse

Genre: Documentary, History

Cast: Abraham Castillo Flores, Adam Scovell, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Alice Lowe, Amanda Reyes, Andy Paciorek, Bernice M. Murphy, Briony Kidd, Bruce G. Hallenbeck, Carlos Primati