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To me it feels like a drama movie with folk horror tropes, rather than a folk horror movie with a particularly dramatic tone; and Ari Aster has been open with his intentions not being too horror oriented too. Blair Witch, though, as much as it taps on folklore, doesn't have the same focus on folk horror as some others.
Sep 13, 2024 · The 2020s have already been great for folk horror, but the current folk horror revival really got its start in the previous decade.The niche subgenre, which had been around since the 1960s and ...
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- 'The Witch' (2015) While Robert Eggers has gone on to make a psychological drama/horror/fantasy movie with lots of farts in 2019 with The Lighthouse, and a dark adventure/action/fantasy/revenge movie in 2022 with The Northman, his feature film debut, The Witch, is a bit more straightforward and definable as a folk horror film.
- 'Kwaidan' (1964) An anthology horror movie where all four stories told are incredibly compelling, Kwaidan is a classic of Japanese cinema for a reason.
- 'Sleepy Hollow' (1999) It might not be as well known as some of his other spooky movies, but Sleepy Hollow certainly shouldn't be overlooked within Tim Burton's filmography.
- 'Midsommar' (2019) Of all the recent folk horror movies from the 2010s, few are as well-known and celebrated as Midsommar. This was Ari Aster's second feature film, and saw him exploring familiar themes around grief and tragedy, but centering the main storyline on a strained relationship, and the way disaster strikes when the central couple - plus some friends - go on a trip to Sweden.
Sep 5, 2024 · Make way for the unsettling movie hare. The folk-horror revival continues unabated with spring rituals and supernatural lepus. ... Daniel Kokotajlo on making one of the best horror films of 2024 ...
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- Daniel Kokotajlo
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- Midsommar (2019) - 83%
- The Wicker Man (1973) - 88%
- Onibaba (1964) - 89%
- Hereditary (2018) - 89%
- The Witch (2015) - 90%
- Häxan (1922) - 91%
- Kwaidan (1965) - 91%
- You Won't Be Alone (2022) - 93%
- November (2017) - 96%
- The Wailing (2016) - 99%
Out of all the folk horror revivalist films of the past decade, Ari Aster's Midsommar is the most typically pagan in design. It contains all the folk horror tropes that were made famous by British filmmakers in the 1970s. The movie is as unsettling as it is moving with its poetic depictions of sacrifice and being made whole again. Related: 10 Movie...
Along with Witchfinder General (1968) and Blood On Satan's Claw (1971), Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man is perhaps the most renowned of the traditional trio of British folk horror films, famously coined 'The Unholy Trinity.' Hardy's movie stars horror icon, Sir Christopher Leeas the malevolent leader of a community who still lives according to archaic...
As folk horror became wedded to movie discourses, appreciation for films from other cultures that included its stereotypical tropes became more ever-present. The classic Japanese horror film, Onibaba, is a prime example of this with its rural setting and its theme of something disturbed from the past being reawakened. Folk horror has long been fasc...
Folk Horror is preconditioned to fixate on elements of the past that try as modernism might, cannot be buried away. These themes are manifested literally in Ari Aster's debut critical hit Hereditary, where grief and occultism merge to dizzying and hypnotic effects. Aster's film is also notable for its phenomenal performance from Toni Collette. Rela...
Along with Ari Aster, Robert Eggers has become one of the defining faces of a new wave of directors who have worked folklore into their idiosyncratic visions of horror. Eggers' The Witch caused nothing short of a critical storm when it was released in 2015, and introduced a young Anya Taylor-Joyto the world. Eggers is also famed for his immaculate ...
Long before Robert Eggers' study of witchcraft in Puritan New England, the Danish silent horror film, Häxan, was a part-documentary-part-folk-horror-drama that delved deep into the historical mythology of witches and how they have been portrayed in both folklore and wider culture as a whole. Far from being a clear-cut horror movie, Häxanposits the ...
Beloved by critics across the globe, the classic Japanese horror Kwaidan followed in the footsteps of its contemporary Onibaba and merged horror with traditional Japanese folklore to create an anthology of terrifying proportions. The film is split into four separate parts, each focusing on a Lafcadio Hearn-inspired folk tale. Kwaidan's preoccupatio...
Starring Noomi Rapace, Goran Stolveski's You Won't Be Alone has wowed critics and audiences alike since its release. The film is a harrowing coming-of-age folk horror tale that explores the primordial relationship between mother and daughter, set against the backdrop of rural nineteenth-century Macedonia. Related: 10 Best Horror Movies Like You Won...
The monochrome masterpiece of folk horror November has flown somewhat under the radar since its release in 2017, but it has been received with glowing praise by critics nevertheless. November follows a series of supernatural events that plague a rural village in nineteenth-century Estonia and is a full-blooded assault on the senses. The movie's cin...
Primordial reawakening and beasts of folkloric tradition are staples of a film with a near-perfect critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Na Hong-jin's The Wailing is a folk horror tale that is unrelenting in its gruesome brilliance and has shocked audiences since its release in 2016. The story of a demon possessing villagers is a well-worn folk horro...
Apr 8, 2020 · 7. The Witch (2015) Robert Eggers’ The Witch is arguably the key film in the folk-horror revival. Fusing all the elements of atmosphere, historical setting and the supernatural, The Witch is the ...
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From the Forests, Fields, Furrows and further: An Introduction by Andy Paciorek. Defining exactly what ‘Folk Horror’ is, is a question that has arisen among the Facebook Folk Horror Revival group several times—a question that has provoked numerous answers and not a single agreeable definition. So in a bid to answer ‘What is Folk Horror ...
