Folk Horror films and novels

[cwmbrancity]

Wake In Fright, the Australian psych-weird foray into booze, dust, screaming heat & fucked up locals, might fit in this category by corollary. It’s a bit like Straw Dogs in that humans are the real threat, no ghosts or goblins, but it has a sense of unease that’s very rare & Donald Pleasence rrrrrrocks.

 

[Rubin Farr]

Trailer looks good, Donald Pleasence was a legend.

[tec]

On 7/12/2019 at 6:20 PM, cwmbrancity said:

Wake In Fright, the Australian psych-weird foray into booze, dust, screaming heat & fucked up locals, might fit in this category by corollary. It’s a bit like Straw Dogs in that humans are the real threat, no ghosts or goblins, but it has a sense of unease that’s very rare & Donald Pleasence rrrrrrocks.

 

Worth pointing out that there’s a scene in this where they go out shooting kangaroos at night and it is fucking brutal. Wish I had been warned.

[kieselguhr kid]

22 hours ago, tec said:

Worth pointing out that there’s a scene in this where they go out shooting kangaroos at night and it is fucking brutal. Wish I had been warned.

 

Yeah, it's a brilliant film, but *that scene* is surely sth i never want to see again. worth pointing out though that it's actually documentary footage the film crew shot when hanging out with the locals, not something that was staged for the film. seems to be the australian way of spending your evening.

 

[cruising for burgers]

seems like lynch's inland empire and rabbits are derived from slavic and polish folkloric tales... and it has some nightmarish/horrific moments...

http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=10711.15

Edited July 15, 2019 by Tim_J

[cwmbrancity]

On 7/14/2019 at 10:51 AM, tec said:

Worth pointing out that there’s a scene in this where they go out shooting kangaroos at night and it is fucking brutal. Wish I had been warned.

Kinda forgot, oops

 

Not in the same class as Wake in Fright but Oz-related w/similar tropes, Razorback came to mind. Haven't watched since the early 90's, but memories of dust, wild animals, Aussie twangs & w/zero kangaroo slaughter (but the hogs are off the scale):

 

[tec]

I watched it a few years ago so not blaming you, if I’d watched it on your recommendation you’d have a red hot inbox. It’s actually a good film but those scenes really do tarnish everything that comes before and after, fucking hell.

Anyway. Has anyone seen Children of the Stones?

Edited July 15, 2019 by tec

[cruising for burgers]

Edited July 16, 2019 by Tim_J

[Nebraska]

1 hour ago, tec said:

Anyway. Has anyone seen Children of the Stones?

yup

[kieselguhr kid]

 

On 7/7/2019 at 9:15 PM, beer badger said:

I watched The Ritual the other week, it was a tedious ritual watching it tbh

Avoid

ah come on, it's not all bad. first half is quite decent; the ending admittedly sucks though. still i kinda liked the god-creature.

 

On 7/8/2019 at 7:32 AM, tec said:

Blood on Satan’s Claw and Robin Redbreast are both essential.

 

thx for the Robin Redbreast recommendation, that's a good one.

check out PENDA'S FEN while you're at it (not exactly horror, but one of the best things the BBC ever produced imho)

also skolimowski's THE SHOUT - surely the only one on the list that also has an electronic music composer protagonist

 

MESSIAH OF EVIL is also great if you're willing to include the american backwood cultist horror subsubgenre

 

[Rubin Farr]

https://www.comingsoon.net/horror/news/748562-10-unforgettable-folk-horror-films/amp

 

[MadellisTheSixth]

On 7/12/2019 at 2:57 AM, Tim_J said:

  

weirdly enough I remember really enjoying troll hunter even just for the beautiful camera work

[cwmbrancity]

2 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/where-begin-folk-horror

 

 

[tec]

4 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

https://www.comingsoon.net/horror/news/748562-10-unforgettable-folk-horror-films/amp

 

Onibaba is obviously great, Wake Wood not so much.

[cwmbrancity]

Wicker Man re-make cough splutter dry heave projectile spew lick it all up & swallow then spew again at no2?

Yeah art is subjective, but gtfo comingsoon.net

[Silent Member]

Apprentice to murder is a movie I saw when I was a kid and it was my introduction to this genre. Kid me would say it was great, although adult me watching the trailer would say that it looks really bad.

[cwmbrancity]

For elitist, purist leanings & commitment to that single, most honourable of causes, Hour of the Wolf.

Family out, work done so dog walk & joint, then filem, might even have 2fingers of rye. 

 

[Soloman Tump]

Found this book recently and I think it looks interesting enough to warrant a mention on this thread.

Also, for my own personal music projects, I have been inspired by the River Thames which flows nearby.  Field recordings, place names and curiosities along its path.

Have been dipping into local Oxfordshire folklore a tad, and when my upcoming album eventually surfaces, it will be themed around such things as The Blowing Stone, Waylands Smithy and Wychwood Forest.  Fun times.

[cwmbrancity]

Waylands Smithy is the tits. Every fkr goes to Avebury, West Kennet & Silbury, but over the county border is a quiet behemoth.

intriguing piece on local but not the local-shop kind of local legend Arthur Machen, available via the website:

https://www.threeimpostors.co.uk/

 

Weren't the L.o.G. on the folk horror wavelength?

 

[Grain Bastard]

A Field Guide to Evil springs to mind.

 

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6688354/

 

 

[Rubin Farr]

It's no A Field in England, but kind of a campy folky slasher flick:

 

[kieselguhr kid]

 

interesting article on the folk horror revival and it's broader theoretical implications:

https://thebaffler.com/latest/children-of-the-wicker-man-millar-semley

[Candiru]

 

When I was a kid, these books were fucking incredible to me. Stephen Gammell, the illustrator is a fuckin boss. For a few summers, I'd stay in a cabin in Maine for a couple weeks and the setting made the books way scarier. 

 

I know there's a movie coming out based on these, but I don't have the highest hopes or anything. 

[Leon Sumbitches]

Those Stephen Gammell illustrations were a mainline to the uncanny. Way scarier than the stories themselves as I recall, the source of many a childhood shiver.

 

Agreed with LoG as being in the folk-horror ballpark.

 

Also check out The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley, it's a cracking recent folk-horror novel, would strongly recommend it.

Edited August 2, 2019 by Leon Sumbitches

[Frank Poole]

Saw this recently and thoroughly enjoyed it.