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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 3d

Harvest (2025)

Beautiful fields. Beautiful lighting. Zero pulse.

Every scene whispers, “Something’s about to happen…” — but nothing ever does, except another shot of wheat feeling emotions. 🌾😐

Great vibes if you love mud, staring, and existential farming.

⭐️⭐️ for the mud's performance alone.

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 3d

What did you make of it? It took a while for the film to really grow on me but it's a firm favourite today. There's a novel (same name) by the director which expands the story considerably. Well worth reading if you liked the film

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 4d

NEW EPISODE: HELLBENDER (2021)

What did your family do during lockdown? The Adams family made a witch movie.

Folk 'n' Hell gets stuck in to decide whether it’s folk horror, family therapy, or an out of hand home video.

On Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

www.folknhell.com

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 13d

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

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).

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 14d

It's folk music, not folk horror

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 18d

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/...

Tales of the Weird: Gothic & Supernatural Fiction

Discover Tales of the Weird from the British Library — a chilling collection of gothic and supernatural stories for fans of horror, mystery and eerie fiction.

shop.bl.uk

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 18d

Isn't November just the most amazing film?

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · 21d

🐺✨ 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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Sep 11

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?

iTunes tinyurl.com/5x3rtyfp
Spotify tinyurl.com/bdz9d4my
Amazon tinyurl.com/235wwkyh

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 28

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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Dice Dad @dicedad.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · Aug 28

Birmingham Cathedral ticked off the list.

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 28

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.

Gary From... Manchester Morgue! @killertunes.bsky.social · Aug 28

I've long held the belief that Candyman is a folk horror. It's about a distrusted outsider to a community who finds herself in danger and a living legend who is heralded via graffiti and stories - community art and storytelling is absolutely 'folk'.

But I'll say The VVitch to appease naysayers 😆

Crossroads: A US Folk Horror Zine @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · Aug 28

What's your favorite folk horror movie from the US?

Doesn't have to be one that's fully in the genre; could be a film with some folk horror themes or elements.

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Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 28

🎙️ 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

Folk 'n' Hell podcast (folknhell.com) @folknhell.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

Crossroads: A US Folk Horror Zine @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · Aug 28

What's your favorite folk horror movie from the US?

Doesn't have to be one that's fully in the genre; could be a film with some folk horror themes or elements.

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