14 visions of folk horror
October 27, 2021 1:15 PM   Subscribe

"There are witch-hunting narratives, and pagan community narratives—there are all kinds of them!” Kier-La Janisse (Wikipedia, IMDB), director of Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, describes her 24-hour, international folk horror film festival to the Onion's A.V. Club.

Kier-La Janisse previously.

Some MetaFilter folk horror posts.
posted by doctornemo (4 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
I just watched The Lottery for the second time in my life. My class in primary school saw it once in a context that now eludes me, save that it was considered Just Fine to traumatize kids back in the seventies.

Anyway, looking back now, I notice that gangly, tow-headed Jack Watson is a nineteen-year-old Ed Begley Jr.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 2:33 PM on October 27, 2021 [1 favorite]


There's also previous Ask Me posts - 1, 2, 3 (ish).

For those on Letterboxd, I think this might be the most complete list there of the titles mentioned & discussed in Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched.
posted by Ashwagandha at 5:09 PM on October 27, 2021 [4 favorites]


I’d like to watch A Field in England, but the DVD I found had pretty muddy sound, and I feared a seizure from the editing and effects.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:02 PM on October 27, 2021


I've watched a decent number of these through Kanopy, worth checking to see if your library offers it.
posted by rewil at 7:29 PM on October 27, 2021


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