Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

194 mins | Documentary | Sept. 9, 2021

Explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade.

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

194 mins | Documentary | Sept. 9, 2021

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Severin Films
Original title Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Directors Kier-La Janisse
Writers Kier-La Janisse

Cast

Robert Eggers

as Self

Alice Lowe

as Self

Ian Ogilvy

as Self

Kevin Kölsch

as Self

Dennis Widmyer

as Self

Piers Haggard

as Self

Adam Scovell

as Self

Amanda Reyes

as Self

Mariano Baino

as Self

Katrin Gebbe

as Self

Linda Hayden

as Poem Reader (voice)

Sean Hogan

as Self

Samm Deighan

as Self

Mikel Koven

as Self

Ian Cooper

as Self

Jonathan Rigby

as Self

Mitch Horowitz

as Self

Kier-La Janisse

as Self

Sam Dunn

as Self

Kat Ellinger

as Self

Mark Pilkington

as Self

Vic Pratt

as Self

William Fowler

as Self

Jeremy Dyson

as Self

Lindsay Hallam

as Self

John Cussans

as Self

Andy Paciorek

as Self

Darren Charles

as Self

Kali Simmons

as Self

Jesse Wente

as Self

Emma Tammi

as Self

Pete Tombs

as Self

Maisha Wester

as Self

Briony Kidd

as Self

Jasper Sharp

as Self

Carlos Primati

as Self

Mattie Do

as Self