Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com)

Folk 'n' Hell descends into the Dutch peatlands for Moloch (2022) — where ancient bodies rise, curses linger, and the bog hides something older than sin. 💀 Folklore, body horror, and a finale that hits like a ritual blade. Listen now at www.folknhell.com or where you get your podcasts

Folk 'n' Hell descends into the Dutch peatlands for Moloch (2022) — where ancient bodies rise, curses linger, and the bog hides something older than sin. 💀

Folklore, body horror, and a finale that hits like a ritual blade.

Listen now at www.folknhell.com or where you get your podcasts

olknHell sinks its teeth into The Company of Wolves (1984), Neil Jordan’s surreal reimagining of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber. Fever dreams, fairy tales, and wolves (both literal and metaphorical).

FolknHell sinks its teeth into The Company of Wolves (1984), Neil Jordan’s surreal reimagining of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber.

Fever dreams, fairy tales, and wolves (both literal and metaphorical).

Listen at folkandhell.com

It's folk music, not folk horror

Folk horror hits different in autumn — the smell of damp earth, the whisper of something ancient in the trees, and that feeling you’re being watched by something that remembers when the village was still a forest. #folkhorror #autumnvibes

The British Library "Tales of the Weird" collection is a fantastic - and growing - set of anthologies. They're my go-to in the winter months: shop.bl.uk/collections/...

Folk 'n' Hell discuss Azrael (2024), a Rapture-set, wordless horror with mute cults, fiery burned ones, and a demonic birth. Is it folk horror brilliance… or just borrowing the vibes? 🎧 Tune in for cults, tunnels, blood rituals & plenty of debate. tinyurl.com/fnhazrael #Podcast #FolkHorror

Folk 'n' Hell discuss Azrael (2024), a Rapture-set, wordless horror with mute cults, fiery burned ones, and a demonic birth.

Is it folk horror brilliance… or just nicking the vibes?

🎧 Tune in for cults, tunnels, blood rituals & plenty of debate.

tinyurl.com/fnhazrael

#Podcast #FolkHorror

Isn't November just the most amazing film?

The next Folk 'n' Hell podcast drops tomorrow at 7.06am (that's 666 :))

Which gives you plenty of time to watch this episode's film, 2024's Azrael

All episodes available at www.folknhell.com

🐺✨ FolknHell dives into The Company of Wolves (1984) — Neil Jordan’s dreamlike fairy tale. Blurring nightmares, desires, and folklore in a lush, surreal world, we unpack its eerie metaphors, gender dynamics, and why this folk-horror gem still has a bite.

🔥 Listen now: tinyurl.com/562wyewr

Movie poster for the 1989 film, Laurin

New Folk ’n’ Hell!

We dive into Laurin (1989) — Robert Sigl’s German oddity where fairy tale meets Hammer horror. Vanishing kids, spectral visions & crimson-soaked dream logic. But is it folk horror?

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Ever wondered what’s lurking under the Dutch peat? 👀

Sink waist-deep into Moloch (2022)—a bog-soaked folk horror of generational curses, body horror, & way too much vomit.

Mist, murder, possession, and a finale that punches harder than a peat-clogged boot.

🎙️ Listen now: folkandhell.com

Damien McCarthy's next film, Hokum, has been picked up for distribution by NEON. Starring Adam Scott, the film's out next year. If you've seen Caveat and, in particular, for folk horror fans, the superb Oddity, you'll know why this is great news

This week FolknHell treks into the Swiss Alps with Sennentuntschi (2010), Michael Steiner’s strange and unsettling take on an Alpine legend. 3 isolated goatherds, in a drunken haze of absinthe, fashion a woman out of broomsticks, rags, and paint. Shenanigans ensue...

Listen at www.folknhell.com

In a break from usual programming, I'm off to a preview of this tonight

We were going to go in there on Monday. Glad we have it a swerve. The Garden Cafe has much nicer cakes, anyway

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If you like a bit of Folk Horror (as I do) "Luz: Flower of Evil" on Amazon now is a good watch.

We have a few mutual friends on Facebook - it was recommended to me by one of them (I forget which)

There's an excellent coffee shop over the road on your right

I haven't read any of Barker's books since I was in my early 20s. I'm afraid to go back to them now as I'm afraid they won't be as good as I remember them. Weaveworld blew my tiny mind

Oh, the Candyman is absolutely a folk horror. Isolated community under threat from a demon borne of the circumstances that have oppressed them. Barker's original story makes it even more explicit.

🎙️ New episode: SENNENTUNTSCHI
🐐 Three drunken goatherds.
🧹 A woman made of broomsticks and paint.

We dive into Sennentuntschi (2010), a bizarre Swiss folk tale that veers between true crime, folklore, and fever dream.

🔗 Listen now - www.folknhell.com

I'd have to go for Robert Eggers' The Witch. It's folk horror through and through and a genuinely disturbing story.

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Vertigo Releasing is paw-sitively excited to announce that the highly anticipated new horror, #GoodBoy, will be coming to UK & Irish cinemas from 10th October.
Watch the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORiP...

Cor! Where'd you get that from?

That pretty much sums up my feelings on Together. The central idea is a good one, but I'm not sure how well it was translated into the final film. Enjoyed it but didn't love it.

I thought Villager would fit into the broad folk horror category. Okay, not much actual horror but that could equally apply to films like Valerie & Her Week of Wonders or November - both classics of the genre.

It's also a hugely enjoyable book ;-)

Sennentuntschi movie poster

New episode!

Myth, madness & misogyny meet in the Alps. A mute woman, a goat, and dark folklore collide in Sennentuntschi.

In the new episode of Folk n Hell, we unpack Sennentuntschi, a schnapps-soaked, WTF-filled tale of alpine horror.

Listen at www.folknhell.com

You're most welcome, @adamsleslie.bsky.social I've been a fan since Kaleidoscope

Two weeks to go till our Folk Horror show on Wednesday 10 September, at @arcstockton.bsky.social, with @bobfischer.bsky.social and me! A fun night of ancient curses, rural horror, and suburban sex orgies!

Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ

'Overall this is a highly readable and enjoyable collection of criticism and debate which has had me revisiting various films and books in my collection.'

A new review of 'Folk horror on film' from @internationaltimes.bsky.social, out now in paperback: internationaltimes.it/uncomfortabl...