Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV
Kier-La Janisse s documentary provides an alluring international overview of macabre genre films drawn from folklore and superstition.
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Director: Kier-La Janisse
With: Piers Haggard, Lawrence Gordon Clark, Alice Lowe, Robert Eggers, Jonathan Rigby, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Mitch Horowitz, Maisha Wester, Mattie Do, Mariano Baino, Robin Hardy. (English, Portuguese dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 194 MIN.
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“Folk horror” is a term of relatively recent vintage or at least popularity that only grows more broad as “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched” spends three and a quarter hours trying to define it. Still, a slippery thesis doesn’t detract from the pleasures of this documentary from genre scholar and programmer Ki
Severin’s Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee box set announced
On May 25, Severin Films is releasing a box set of buried gems from one of cinema’s most seminal figures – Sir Christopher Lee. He remains one of the most beloved horror/fantasy icons in US/UK pop culture history, but Christopher Lee delivered several of the most compelling, acclaimed and bizarre performances of his entire career in 1960s Europe.
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Leebrings together five of these Lee classics – the 1964 gothic shocker
Crypt of the Vampire; the 1964 cult hit
Castle of the Living Dead co-starring an unknown Donald Sutherland; 1962’s celebrated
Severin Films To Release Amazing Christopher Lee Treasure Box!
Our friends at Severin Films take on delivering underseen Christopher Lee masterpieces! By Marcos Codas
Our friends over at Severin Films have reached out to let us know that they’ll be releasing a masterful box set of underseen Christopher Lee treasures. They recently released some of Jodorowsky’s works, too. Find more details in the press release below:
5 Movies, 1 Anthology TV Series, 8 Blu-Rays, 1 CD & 88 Page Illustrated Book By Lee Biographer Jonathan Rigby In One Spectacular Box Set!
(LOS ANGELES, CA) On May 25th,
Severin Films is releasing a box set of buried gems from one of cinema’s most seminal figures –
The Reckoning : Review: Neil Marshall Returns to Traditional Horror With Routine Tale of Witch-Hunting
The film s punchy visuals are undercut by a meandering story that strains credibility.
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Director: Neil Marshall
With: Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington, Joe Anderson, Suzanna Magowan, Sarah Lambie, Ian Whyte, Callum Goulden, Leon Ockenden, Emma Campbell Jones, Mark Ryan, Bill Fellows, Oliver Trevena.
Running time: Running time: 111 MIN.
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Following the misfire of 2019’s “Hellboy” reboot, “The Descent” director Neil Marshall returns to his traditional horror roots with “The Reckoning,” an uneven melodrama about an innocent young widow accused of witchcraft during the Great Plague of London, 1665. Striving to be a rousing tale of female empowerment in the face of brutal patriarchy and religious extremism, “The Reckoning” has some powerful moments but relies too heavily on fa
Common Traits of Fear
We all know fear. When you experience fear, your body reacts: you feel the adrenaline release as your heart races, your breathing accelerates, and your muscles tense. Sometimes that can be intensely fun: think of the rush of the roller coaster or the big game. Sometimes it can be terrifying as panic grips you so utterly, you cannot think but only shake, sweat, and fret. Underneath those experiences are common thoughts. Our different fears have common traits, a common DNA.
However, it is important to recognize that there are different
sorts of fear. Confusion on this point is deadly. Take, for example, how some Christians see the lack of reverence and awe of God in our churches and seem to think the answer is to make people