Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
September 9, 2021
Documentary, History
3h 13m


An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to its resurgence in the last decade.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Kier-La Janisse
- Self Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Self Alice Lowe
- Self Dennis Widmyer
- Self Dennison Ramalho
- Self Emma Tammi
- Self / Poem Reader (voice) Ian Ogilvy
- Self Jeremy Dyson
- Self Jonathan Rigby
Videos
Recommendations
Keywords
- cinema on cinema
- voodoo
- new age
- paganism
- witchcraft
- science vs religion
- vampirism
- folk horror
- religious persecution
- cinema history
- british cinema
- nazi occultism
- southern gothic
- occultism
- british folklore
- hoodoo
- macumba
- religious fanaticism
- neo-paganism