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personalities turns into a terrifying experience this controversial mockumentary horrified audiences who thought what they were seeing was real and stoked a tabloid furore a field in england in the 17th century four deserters from the english civil war find a field full of magic mushrooms and are forced to help an alchemist search for buried gold folk horror at its most hallucinatory and unhinged with reece shearsmith in particular making the sort of unholy faces that will haunt your nightmares the lair of the white worm a lesser known bram stoker novel gets the ken russell treatment turning it into a bonkers horror comedy starring young hugh grant as an aristocrat who teams up with an archaeologist to battle a legendary giant worm amanda donohoe s deliriously camp performance as the snake god s slinky priestess is not to be missed the wicker man a pious police sergeant searches for a missing schoolgirl on a remote scottish island where he is shocked by the pagan traditions presided over by christopher lee at his most patrician this uniquely unsettling landmark in folk horror hailed as the citizen kane of horror movies builds up to a devastating climax witchfinder general the third and most accomplished film from whizz kid reeves before his untimely death is a grim revenge western set during the english civil war vincent price gives one of his best and scariest performances as the infamous matthew hopkins who roams the land torturing suspected witches for profit and pleasure the outcasts rural ireland 1810 eccentric maura is accused of witchcraft by her community but finds solace in the company of scarf michael a roving fiddler and his magical otherworld this landmark irish film from robert wynne simmons who wrote the blood on satan s claw was only recently rediscovered and restored arcadia a montage of film clips drawn from 100 years of archive footage coalesces into a fever dream exploring the british people s connection to their land what begins as elegiac becomes increasingly surreal cheese rolling even ominous set to a soundtrack by portishead s adrian utley and goldfrapp s will gregory the blood on satan s claw an 18th century farmer unearths a deformed skull in his field a discovery that leads to local youngsters sprouting patches of demonic fur and forming a satanic cult in which they sacrifice their friends a landmark folk horror film scripted by robert wynne simmons who went on to write and direct the outcasts a dark song a grouchy occultist and a bereaved woman sequester themselves in a remote house where they intend to summon a supernatural entity to help her come to terms with her grief but the rituals are long and gruelling neither party is telling the whole truth and nothing goes as planned in gavin s haunting debut feature symptoms helen invites her friend anne a writer to stay at her mansion in the english countryside but the big old house is full of strange noises the handyman is a creep and anne senses a mystery that she sets out to solve larraz s eerie psychochiller gives angela pleasence who plays helen the role of her career quatermass and the pit in the third and best of hammer s big screen versions of nigel kneale s bbc tv trilogy workmen digging a london underground extension unearth what seems to be an unexploded bomb but no it s worse ghosts aliens and the devil collide in one of the most mind boggling origin stories in the horror and sci fi canon enys men a nature volunteer keeps watch over a rare flower on an island off the coast of cornwall in jenkin s immersive semi experimental reworking of folk horror tropes as creeping lichen an eerie menhir and the island s ghosts jostle with visions from her past the solitude begins to take its toll on her mental state the stone tape scientists move into a haunted house hoping to use its stone walls as a radical new recording medium but they don t know what they re dealing with nigel kneale s teleplay revolutionised the traditional ghost story lent its name to a paranormal theory and was a big influence on john carpenter s prince of darkness the signalman a lone traveller encounters a railway signalman whose signal box is stationed near the mouth of a tunnel and finds him living in fear of a mysterious figure whose visitations invariably presage disaster denholm elliott gives an acting masterclass in this hair raising adaptation of a ghost story by charles dickens from the old earth while digging in his garden a man unearths an ancient celtic stone head which gives his wife a bad nightmare one of the first horror films in the welsh language this eerie little number was produced by bwrdd ffilmiau cymraeg the welsh film board which incredibly arranged for it to be screened in primary schools thus well and truly terrorising a generation of small welsh children kill list jay ex soldier turned hitman puts his domestic problems on hold to embark on a triple killing mission with his irish buddy but glimpses of their shady client pagan symbols and jay s escalating bloodlust hint that this is not so much a hitman thriller as a deadly expedition into the depravity of the human soul the shout people s souls are trapped in pebbles on the north coast of devon in this gripping adaptation of an uncanny story by robert graves a strange traveller alan bates disrupts the lives of a composer and his wife claiming a shaman has taught him a shout that will kill anyone who hears it is he mad or truly dangerous the woman in black the 2012 film of susan hill s ghost story with daniel radcliffe is nowhere near as frightening as this earlier tv version with a screenplay by nigel kneale a young london solicitor assigned to settle a widow s estate goes through her papers in a big empty house where he is unnerved by a threatening presence requiem for a village the past clashes and sometimes meshes with the present in this portrait of an english village as seen through the eyes of an old man tending the graveyard docudrama slips into folk horror as dead villagers rise from their tombs to share their memories and rural tranquility is rudely shattered by a biker gang penda s fen alan clarke better known for his down and dirty social realism also directed this visionary eloquent coming of age telefilm a vicar s son finds his staid views on religion and sexuality challenged by visitations from the pagan past and secret military experiments conducted in the mystical landscape around his village the appointment what begins as a spooky chiller turns into a nail biting exercise in mounting dread when a middle class father edward woodward is obliged to miss his teenage daughter s violin recital because of a business appointment there are dark forces at work with bad dreams and portents building up to a shattering finale whistle and i ll come to you in this classic bbc adaptation of an m r james story the peerless michael horden plays a fusty professor holidaying on england s east coast where he finds a whistle in a graveyard and makes the mistake of blowing it his nightmares are creepy enough but you ll never look at a spare bed the same way again a warning to the curious no digging here in 1930s east anglia a cash strapped amateur archaeologist the great peter vaughan is hunting for a legendary crown rumoured to be buried off the bleak norfolk coast unfortunately for him the treasure is guarded by a vicious ghost in this petrifying adaptation of an m r james story how many of these folk horror movies have you seen have you seen all 27 folk horror films on this list or did we introduce you to some new nightmares let us know in the comments which ones are your favorites and which still haunt you want more eerie movie fun if you want more eerie movie fun check out meow cats in horror sci fi and fantasy movies covering films from 29 countries it s a deep dive into the weirdest wildest and most unexpected cat centric genre movies perfect for horror and sci fi fans looking for something a little different 28 comments labels brussels offsreen film festival share thursday february 20 2025 offscreen film festival 2025 the program of the 18th edition of the offscreen film festival for which i am a programmer is now online the festival keeps an eye on exciting new talent while continuing to explore alternative film history we have once again assembled an exhilarating programme of more than 60 screenings that swim against mainstream trends from march 12 until march 30 we plunge into the wonderful world of film at its most offbeat and stimulating edgy cult viewing and all the genres from b to z and as always to complement our selection of premieres we present a special focus a tribute and a retrospective the festival opens on wednesday 12 march with the premiere of thibault emin s else in the presence of its director and crew this franco belgian co production a body horror romance set during a bizarre epidemic in which the infected start to merge with their surroundings is the first of more than 16 new and unreleased features in our offscreenings selection that take us from europe body odyssey solvent infinite summer to america s underbelly a desert vulcanizidora dead mail to japan kiyoshi kurosawa s genre mash up cloud and toshiaki toyoda s mind blowing transcending dimensions and across time itself in timestalker to be introduced by its british director and star alice lowe last but not least we are thrilled to present the benelux premiere of reflet dans un diamant mort the latest film from brussels based directing duo hélène cattet and bruno forzani in an extensive restrospective under the heading the haunted isles folk horror and the wyrd in the uk and ireland we will be showing over 30 films many in newly restored versions at cinema nova and cinematek in addition to the original unholy trinity of folk horror classics rooted in the british landscape and its superstitions witchfinder general 1968 the blood on satan s claw 1971 and the wicker man 1973 we dip into paganism witchcraft stone circles and ghosts in a rich selection of otherworldly tales including the newly rediscovered irish classic the outcasts 1982 screened in the presence of writer director robert wynne simmons also on the menu jacques tourneur s magnificent night of the demon 1957 hammer s adaptation of the devil rides out 1968 directed by the great terence fisher and ken russell s bonkers horror comedy the lair of the white worm 1988 starring hugh grant and peter capaldi at the start of their careers this retrospective will be launched with a screening of rupert russell s documentary the last sacrifice 2024 which traces the origins of the folk horror boom lavishly illustrated by clips from many of the films in our retrospective making it the perfect introduction to this theme the eerie alienation of the subgenre transcends boundaries of genre and format to permeate science fiction as in hammer s 1967 big screen version of nigel kneale s quatermass and the pit and fantasy as well as television dramas and series which we ll be celebrating in a special wyrd british television night presented by bob fischer of the haunted generation blog among the treats on offer are episodes from spooky tv series such as bbc s a ghost story for christmas the controversial mockumentary ghostwatch 1992 and a selection of terrifying government sponsored public information clips showing what happens to naughty children who trespass on farmland or railway lines the folk horror phenomenon may have peaked in the 1970s but we show too how its influence can be felt in more recent work by filmmakers who grew up in that decade ben wheatley s kill list 2011 liam gavin s a dark song 2016 mark jenkin s enys men 2022 and paul duane s all you need is death 2023 finally the concepts of folk horror and wyrd media will be further explored and contextualised at an international conference featuring specialist speakers and a panel discussion and not entirely unconnected with these themes our matinee screening will be the newly restored version of watership down 1978 the gripping animated film of richard adams bestselling rabbit epic under the banner weird greece we sample the recent greek weird wave spearheaded by the film that put this movement on the map yorgos lanthimos s internationally acclaimed dogtooth followed by lesser known gems such as suntan 2016 and pity 2018 then we dive back into the 1960s and 1970s when the hellenic film industry let off steam in an unprecented deluge of b movies and exploitation pics featuring all manner of felons jealous lovers crazed killers and hedonistic youngsters besporting themselves on sun drenched aegean beaches choice examples of which can be seen at cinema ritcs cinéma aventure and cinema nova revelling in provocative titles such as the wild pussycat diamonds on her naked flesh and island of death these productions travelled abroad to find enthusiastic audiences in non greek grindhouse markets but have since been largely forgotten jacques spohr greeksploitation specialist and editor of the zinel insatiable will be hosting a special evening of trailers outtakes and two sexploitation films meanwhile rare items from his collection of posters lobby cards and other paraphernalia will be on display at cinema nova finally in a special tribute to the creative belgian team of picha and boris szulzinger we present exclusive screenings of seven of their films all freshly restored by cinematek and the royal belgian film archive picha professional pseudonym of jean paul walravens is a brussels born cartoonist whose adult animated features such as the missing link 1980 and the big bang 1987 are risqué grotesque and defiantly non pc but also scabrously funny and boundary pushing he took his first steps in cinema under the aegis of the late producer boris szulzinger himself a notable director of such cult titles as les tueurs fous 1973 which prefigures the likes of henry portrait of a serial killer and mama dracula 1980 a horror comedy in which one flew over the cuckoo s nest s louise fletcher plays countess elizabeth báthory two documentaries cartoon circus 1972 by picha and benoît lamy and luc jabon s brand new picha envers et contre tout help put the work in context while picha himself will be attending the festival in person to talk about his outrageous 1975 succès de scandale tarzoon shame of the jungle 30 comments labels offsreen film festival share thursday february 6 2025 meet me at the cat café of brussels join me for a book signing at the cat café cup cats in brussels on february 8 at 1 pm i ll be bringing my cat themed books avalon clowders and meow come say hi and grab a signed copy 342 comments labels belgium book signing brussels share wednesday january 29 2025 stripbeurs putte 25 comments labels belgium book signing share thursday january 2 2025 join me at the winter but in breda hi everyone on january 4 i ll be heading to breda the netherlands for a book signing at winter but the place to be is poppodium phoenix from 12...