The Discomfort Zone: On The Wicker Man (1973)
James Fleming unpacks the alienating experience of Robin Hardy’s 1973 folk horror classic, The Wicker Man…
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Local Gothicism: The Everyday Horrors of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith
Sophia Adamowicz explores the distinctive blend of the macabre and the mundane in the work of The League of Gentlemen’s long-standing writing and acting partners…
‘Sunlight and terror’: Commemorating 50 years of The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971)
David Evans-Powell explores Piers Haggard’s 1971 folk horror classic, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, and offers some reflections on the more troubling aspects of the film…
Examining the Tension Between Modernity and Folk Horror in Children of the Stones
Focusing on the interaction between the community and modern outsiders, the isolated nature of Milbury and its rejection of modern society and technology, Sam Pheby-McGarvey explores Children of the Stones…
A Monstrous Birth: Revisiting Chimera (1991)
Revisiting Stephen Gallagher’s Chimera, an early 90s TV mini-series exploring the perilous consequences when scientific advancement meets government corruption…