#woodlands dark and days bewitched

[sesiondemadrugada]

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

#Kier-La Janisse #folk horror #A History of Folk Horror #Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched

[literarysiren]

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched has a hefty runtime, but you won't even feel it slipping by with as much knowledge packed into this sprawling documentary on folk horror. You can find it on Shudder!

#folk horror #sxsw #sxsw 2021 #south by southwest #film festivals #shudder #woodlands dark and days bewitched #documentary #kier la janisse #shirley jackson #the witch #the wicker man #the lottery #we have always lived in the castle #blood on satan's claw #the witchfinder general #piers haggard #michael reeves #children of the corn #candyman

[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.

#ginger snaps #blood red sky #el conde #flux gourmet #the lighthouse #woodlands dark and days bewitched #the most assassinated woman in the world #errementari: the devil and the blacksmith #ganja and hess #the pale door #she-creature #birdboy: the forgotten children #freeway #midnight mass #the fall of the house of usher #creepshow s4 #werewolves #vampires #mermaids #sirens #demons #witches #monstrous feminine #folk horror #black horror #international horror #fairy tale retelling #religious horror #suspense thriller #edgar allan poe

[forthegothicheroine]

New-to-me movies seen in 2022: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)

“Strange things found in fields, lights flickering in dark woods, the darkness in children’s play, being lost in ancient landscapes.”

#movies #folk horror #2022 movies #woodlands dark and days bewitched

[booksellergothic]

Halloween, Days 21 & 22

A double event because I wasn’t home enough yesterday to post.  Both of today’s recommendations are works from Canadian writer and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse

The documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched is my favorite doc I have seen this year.  The definitive - perhaps even exhaustive - work on Folk Horror on film.  At three hours and fourteen minutes it covers the British origins of what is now formally called Folk Horror and then moves on to cover the rest of the world.  Both authoritative, chockful of interviews and scenes from movies familiar and obscure, it is also a work of beauty in itself.  

Ten years ago Janisse wrote what was, at the time, a revolutionary autobiography using the horror and exploitation films that she had loved and been obsessed with since her childhood to examine her own history, her personal and family traumas, and struggles with mental illness, rage, and selfhood.  Ignoring what was considered a given that film should only be viewed in an impartial way, Janisse made these movies intensely personal.  

Now she has updated her work, to include both her experiences and the changes in her life in the last decade, and the new films that have become part of her internal world.  This book is intense, honest, and sometimes terribly uncomfortable, even harrowing, but worth for anyone whose connection to horror and other dark media is also a part of who they are, not merely what they like.

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@piggledy-higgledy​ @imdeadtiredtm​ @joyfullymassivewhispers​ @caffiend-queen​ @dangertoozmanykids101​ @toozmanykids​ @wrathkitty​ @myoxisbroken​ @punemy-spotted​ @stupendouslovegardener​ @sylviefromneptune​ 

#31 days of halloween reading #31 days of halloween #halloween #kier-la janisse #woodlands dark and days bewitched #house of psychotic women

[thefiresofpompeii]

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

#anyway the documentary itself SLAPPED i am still reeling from how all-encompassing and wonderfully cohesive it was. standing ovation #can you tell i'm mad about hereditary again. stop touting it as the pinnacle of modern horror or whatever. nobody around me gets it #ari assturd SUCKS he is literally example A of what i'm vagueing here #folk horror #kier la-janisse #woodlands dark and days bewitched #film #jamie.txt #horror

[markgatissappreciationsociety]

I scanned through over three hours of the documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, and this photo is the only time Mark is shown. Although Jonathan Rigby, consultant on Mark’s History of Horror documentary, does comment. 

#woodlands dark and days bewitched #folk horror

[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.

#woodlands dark and days bewitched #all the haunts be ours #folk horror

[cornsword]

A long and lauded documentary that does have some insights but covers so much ground that nothing gets much of a deep dive. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched served mostly to give me a few new movie recommendations and especially to highlight some UK tv I need to look into. Would love to own the bit box set this is included in.

#halloween #halloween hundred #movies #horror #halloween hundreds #horror movies #folk horror #documentary #horror documentary #woodlands dark and days bewitched #severin films

[yokaiakito]

I just finished watching the "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched" folk horror documentary by Severin Films, and I made a list of some of the books and stories mentioned!

I tried to include book eBook and eAudiobook versions of all of the books/stories!

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1370 - "The Willows" & "The Wendigo"

https://archive.org/details/TheThrillOfHorror1975LennySEXciter/mode/2up - "Pallinghurst Barrow" & "Randalls Round"

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/8486 & https://librivox.org/ghost-stories-of-an-antiquary-by-m-r-james/- M. R. James (Ghost Stories for Christmas)

https://librivox.org/lovecrafts-influences-and-favorites-by-various/- "The White People" and "The Willows"

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/25016 - "The White People"

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2048 - "The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon "

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/8223 - "Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker"

https://librivox.org/mosses-from-an-old-manse-by-nathaniel-hawthorne/ & https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 - "Young Goodman Brown"

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3623 - "The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion"

Here you all go! Happy reading!!!

#woodlands dark and days bewitched #horror #folk horror #horror books #audiobooks #digital audiobooks #ebooks #digital books #books #Severin Films #horror ficiton #All the Haunts Be Ours

[randomrichards]

WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR

Horror looking back

To portray fears of the now

Learn we don’t go back

#woodlands dark and days bewitched #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #poets on tumblr #daily haiku #haiku poetry #haiku form #documentary #haiku a day #haiku on tumblr #folk horror #kier la janisse #robert eggers

[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.

#my sort of starting point were the movies listed in the documentary woodlands dark and days bewitched

[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.

#woodlands dark and days bewitched: a history of folk horror my beloved

[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

#they had a small section in woodlands dark and days bewitched about australia #and they talked about the native american angle #but there is a whole world there to look at

[filmnoirsbian]

Things watched in August

#maggie was unimpressed by the og jumanji :( #tbh all of these are solid films w the exception of raccoon city which was just ok #the folk horror doc does drag on quite a bit during the British segment tho fyi i did skip like 20 mins of that #an eye in the head of a poet #films in order of being watched and appearance here: resident evil welcome to raccoon city / paranormal activity 3 #paranormal activity the marked ones / hereditary / prey / woodlands dark and days bewitched a history of folk horror / the love witch #lake mungo / nope / suspiria 1977 / jumanji 1995 / day shift #tcp

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

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

#woodlands dark and days bewitched: a history of folk horror #woodlands dark and days bewitched: a history of folk horror (2021) #2023filmgifs #my gifs #i had such high expectations for that #and it surpassed them ALL #it was SO GOOD #though it could have included at least one desi film #the brazilian stuff was the most fascinating to me #and i was rather surprised at how many #of these films i've already seen #plus it was cool to see directors whose work i actually like #not you robert eggers you can piss off #funnily enough i have The Witchfinder General to watch #but now i'm too scared to #oh well