#woodlands dark and days bewitched

[sesiondemadrugada]

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (Kier-La Janisse, 2021).

[meddling-in-horror]

Halloween 2023 Content Round-Up

So........my October was a lot more packed than I thought. I ended up extremely busy across the board with school and shows, so I wasn't able to watch every single thing on my list. However, I ended up getting through a lot more than I thought I would.

Here's the rundown:

Ginger Snaps (2001) - thesis research, more to come

Blood Red Sky (2021) - monsters, motherhood, and the monstrous-feminine, more to come

El Conde (2023) - I was confused, but in a good way?

Flux Gourmet (2022) - really bizarre, but really really good

The Lighthouse (2019) - very odd, unsure how to feel about it

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) -folk horror is really cool, more to come

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018) - super interesting examination of trauma and escapism

Errementari: The Devil and the Blacksmith (2017) - again, folk horror is really cool

Ganja and Hess (1973) - thesis research, more to come

The Pale Door (2020) - depiction of witched, more to come

She-Creature (2001) - thesis research, more to come

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) - lore is a bit confusing, but it's beautiful

Freeway (1996) - fucks with me every time I watch it

Midnight Mass (2021) - I think about Riley Flynn literally every single day of my life

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) - this show fucks 10/10

Creepshow S4 (2023) - perhaps the best season of the show yet

Considering three of these are tv shows, I'd say I did pretty well.

[dandelionjack]

just watched kier-la janisse's 3 hour documentary epic about folk horror as a mode of interpretation and understanding of vastly different styles and eras of genre cinema and despite everything the fact remains that most "horror" "fans" and creators are cowards who firmly stick to their guns regarding their ingrained assumptions and prejudices about cultures/beings/identities that are seen as the other, continuing to proliferate these damaging harmful narratives without questioning which parties may benefit from a version of the story being told from this particular point of view. what ends does the instilling of fear, the most powerful, potent, galvanising in some cases emotion, serve for an audience? (obviously this is the case with any other genre and in actuality just a far wider problem sort of inevitable in a regime that instructs which ideas are to be spread to the masses) but again, it's vital to consider this issue specifically within the realm of horror, since nothing inspires scapegoating, hatred and self-righteous violence quite like blind fear of a phenomenon that the required effort has not been put into comprehending

[eclecticpjf]

Watching:

We’ve watched all the features in the “All the Haunts Be Ours” set, so we’re re-watching the documentary now that we’ve seen more of the movies it discusses.

[windsweptinred]

@dream-of-the-bitchless I noticed you said you love yourself some folk horror. If you haven't seen this yet, I couldn't recommend it highly enough!

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) dir. Kier-La Janisse

Animation by Zena Grey and Brendt Rioux

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[davidwatchedthat]

9/17/24

WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR, directed by Kier-La Janisse, 2021.

[jaynedolluk]

I've been watching some documentaries I've found on Amazon Prime. One of my favourites so far was Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, it's over 3 hours long and it's all about folk horror films. One of the things I loved the most about it was it covered films from all over the world everywhere from Mexico to Malaysia, Australia to Russia. It was really interesting and so many great films to check out.

[legallybrunettedotcom]

i'm making a folk horror edit and i know i have a few mutuals who are quite knowledgeable about it, and while i've done my research and made a hugeee list of movies to watch and include, i just thought to ask if you have any recommendations. other than the very obvious ones that is.

[hairtusk]

i'm already such a boring old fuck in my twenties. realised i could spend the evening quilt-making, drinking red wine and rewatching a 3hr+ long documentary about folk horror and starting grinning to myself. my god.

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

142. Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror (2021)

[storyofmorewhoa]

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is fantastic.

The documentary!!!!! It gets it!!! The inherent colonialism in American folk horror! The anxiety of witchcraft in England!!! Spiritualism being a predecessor to women’s rights movements!!! The fear of the past crawling out of the earth!!!

[scavenger-cinephile]

The spooky season is upon us, so this month's challenge is mostly themed around all things scary and supernatural, but I've tried to keep the majority of the prompts broad enough that people not into horror might be able to tailor their picks. Good luck!

In the lead-up to Halloween, IndieWire has published a list of what they're calling the 75 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time. Pick a film off the list, or choose one of the starring actors and watch another of their films.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre turns 50 this month! Watch a slasher, or a movie about a serial killer. Some suggestions.

The Sixth Sense is also turning a big age this month! 25! Watch any M. Night Shyamalan movie, or any movie starring someone from the cast.

Watch a horror genre mash-up i.e. horror-comedy (Shaun of the Dead, Lisa Frankenstein), horror-romance (Only Lovers Left Alive, The Shape of Water) or horror-sci-fi (High Life, Under the Skin).

Watch a movie set in the woods. Some suggestions.

Watch a movie featuring a supernatural creature (mermaids, dragons, vampires, zombies, etc.)

Watch one of Guillermo Del Toro's Twitter film recommendations.

For a lighter tone (or maybe not), Saturday Night comes out this month! Watch a movie set over the course of a single day. Some suggestions.

Watch a stage-to-screen adaptation. Some suggestions.

And finally, get familiar with the history of the spooky with the documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror or by watching one of the 200+ films featured in it.

[talesfromthecrypts]

The obvious parallel between a certain subsection of North American folk horror and Australian folk horror when it comes to coming to terms with their past abuses of both Native Americans and Aboriginals. Comparing NA films like Eyes of Fire and Clear Cut to Australian films like The Dreaming. Just something to think about

[hedgerowdevil]

STARVE ACRE

I did really like the Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched mega-documentary on folk horror from a few years ago, even though it stretched the meaning of what constitutes a folk horror film beyond reason. About 0.6% of the films discussed are what I'd call folk horror, but maybe I'm too much of a FH purist.

Starve Acre is undoubtedly a folk horror. It's obviously a story created in recent years during, and extremely aware of, the so-called folk horror revival. And, unlike most other current attempts at the genre, which have mainly been pale, failed Wicker Man knock-offs, Starve Acre does a fair job of bringing back to life many of the tropes.

Starve Acre is from the Blood on Satan's Claw and Robin Redbreast wing of the sub-genre; 1970s setting, all windswept, bleak British fields, and something curious the 17th-century pagans left buried in the sodden mud. Grief-laden and leaden, as so many horror movies are these days (I probably could have done with watching something a *bit* lighter on this post-US election night!), but, for me, was authentically folk horror-y.

Nice to see Hartley Hare from Pipkins get some work as well.

[witchyfashion]

This large-scale fold-out map explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Michael Reeves’ Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard’s Blood On Satan’s Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973) – through to the genre’s revival over the last decade. An exploration into horror cinema’s folkways leads one into many strange corners all over the world. This map depicts a concentrated cluster of 36 locations where the films are set or staged – and where their core ideas sometimes spring from, from Scotland to Serbia. More often than not these places are separate from complex urban societies, and tucked away in the rural, in insular hamlets and villages. Places where the pull of the old ways can still be felt. This map accompanies the documentary feature Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched (2021) from Severin Films.

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