Oh boy, I can feel a response essay coming on. Not that I disagree with any of the points made here, but I have some expanded thoughts on Folk Horror as Genre.
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival
“AIP framed a dysfunctional Western as a Poe adaptation because they needed a Poe adaptation they could sell. Decades later, the first wave of Folk Horror researchers framed the same dysfunctional Western as a work of Folk Horror...”
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Things Resurface is an occasional series in which I write films and TV series from in and around the ‘Folk Horror’ genre. While the spine of this series comes from the Severin films’ ‘All The Haunt…
