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Folk Horror

Gun violence and trauma- ‘Hokum’ and ‘The Drama’ are tackling the same crisis

Gun violence and trauma: ‘Hokum’ and ‘The Drama’ are tackling the same crisis

An avoidable epidemic.

Lily Hardman
May 16, 2026
Identity, religion, and rebelling against tradition in Alan Clarke's ‘Penda’s Fen’

Identity, religion, and rebelling against tradition in Alan Clarke’s ‘Penda’s Fen’

A masterpiece.

Aimee Ferrier
Aug 9, 2025
The Orchard End Murder - 1980 - British Short Film

‘The Orchard End Murder’: a horrifying forgotten British short

Underrated gem…

Aimee Ferrier
May 10, 2025
Britain's collective nervous breakdown- Rupert Russell on 'The Last Sacrifice,' folk horror, and the real-life murder that inspired 'The Wicker Man...

“Britain’s collective nervous breakdown”: Rupert Russell on ‘The Last Sacrifice’, folk horror, and the real-life murder that inspired ‘The Wicker Man’

This isn’t the story of one murder – it’s the story of a nation in crisis.

Michael Gordon
Mar 13, 2025
You Won't Be Alone' - Far Out Magazine

‘You Won’t Be Alone’: a queasy calling card for Macedonian horror

An astonishing folk horror debut

Lily Hardman
Oct 21, 2024
Anatomy of a Scene- The terrifying sacrifice in 'The Wicker Man' - 1973

Anatomy of a Scene: The terrifying sacrifice in ‘The Wicker Man’

A horrifying spectacle…

Aimee Ferrier
Jun 13, 2024

The folk horror classic dubbed a “study in sadism” by censors

“The mark of Satan is upon them.”

Sam Kemp
Oct 23, 2022
40 years of 'Blood on Satan's Claw'

40 years of ‘Blood on Satan’s Claw’: Piers Haggard’s grimey folk horror classic

Devils, townsfolk and the grime of the soil.

Calum Russell
Oct 18, 2021

‘In the Earth’ Review: Ben Wheatley’s lockdown horror

Continuing the tradition of British folk horror.

Calum Russell
Apr 17, 2021
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