Love to see all my favourite things mentioned in one paragraph. And the artworks (illustrations, posters and such) made by Richard Wells aka Slippery Jack are highly recommended.
Folk horror was a literary genre long before it made its screen debut. “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835), “The Great God Pan” (1894) by Arthur Machen, “The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood (1910), “The Dunwich Horror” by H.P. Lovecraft (1929), “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (1948) and “Children of the Corn” by Stephen King (1977) are all folk horror. But three films known as the “unholy trinity” established it as a cinematic genre: “Witchfinder General” (1968; based very loosely on the murderous career of the 17th-century witch hunter Matthew Hopkins), “The Blood on Satan’s Claw” (1971) and “The Wicker Man” (1973; about a pagan cult that has survived, on idyllic Summerisle, into the mod 1970s). ©
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