{"id":56835,"date":"2024-10-15T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=56835"},"modified":"2024-10-15T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:15:27","slug":"fear-as-folk-check-out-these-new-folk-horror-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=56835","title":{"rendered":"Fear As Folk: Check Out These New Folk Horror Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56833 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/demon-pond-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/demon-pond-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/demon-pond-825x1024.jpg 825w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/demon-pond-768x954.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/demon-pond.jpg 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/>The leaves are dropping, you\u2019re stocking up on those bags of fun size bars\u2026It\u2019s Trick or Treat time, and that means connoisseurs of horror movies are going to have to make some shelf space for some worthy new hard media releases. This time out, we\u2019re highlighting some just-arriving items that fall under the increasingly popular sub-genre of folk horror.<\/p>\n<p>Folk horror cinema, and literature, relies on regional lore and superstition to provide the scares in their scenarios. Usually, the protagonist is an outsider come to a rural setting, and who scoffs\u2014initially\u2014when the locals pin unnatural doings on long-held myths. Whether the peril has genuinely unearthly origins, or is just the consequence of very earthly mobthink, it\u2019s not going to work out well for the hero.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s generally accepted that the folk horror film took popular root in British cinema of the \u201860s and \u201870s, as exemplified by <em>Witchfinder General<\/em> (1968) and <em>The Wicker Man<\/em> (1973). Recent modern-era entries include <em>The Witch<\/em> (2015) and <em>Midsommar<\/em> (2019). Being that every culture has folkloric fear stories, folk horror has proved to be a genuinely global phenomenon, with filmmakers on every continent offering up these primal pulse-pounders.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate the point, we\u2019re going to look at three items hitting out shelves\u2014from Europe, Asia, and Australia\u2014sure to be of interest to folk-horror fans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/il-demonio\/760137162933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Il Demonio<\/em><\/a> (1963): This effective shocker from Italy starred period pin-up Daliah Lavi as a promiscuous villager who can\u2019t accept the fact the townsman (Frank Wolff) she covets is betrothed to another. After his marriage, her sundry attempts to place a curse on him raise the ire of the locals. Is her increasingly erratic behavior a ploy to win him over, or, as many in the community fear, genuine demonic possession?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/demon-pond-criterion-collection\/715515303712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Demon Pond<\/em><\/a> (1979): A kabuki staple for over a century, this tale has received several renditions in Japanese cinema as well. This dreamlike effort from director Masahiro Shinoda follows a teacher (Tsutomu Yamazaki) on a cross-country hike who encounters an old acquaintance (G\u00f4 Kat\u00f4) in a small lakeside village\u2014and then discovers his old friend claims to be mystically bound to the town, lest the pond\u2019s demons flood it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/alisons-birthday\/760137162926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Alison\u2019s Birthday<\/em><\/a> (1981): Heading down the Pacific Rim, we\u2019ve got this entry from Down Under, where student Alison (Joanne Samuel) and her boyfriend Pete (Lou Brown) head to her back country hometown to spend her 19<sup>th<\/sup> birthday with the aunt and uncle (Bunney Brooke, John Bluthal) who\u2019d raised her since her parents\u2019 untimely demise. Her relatives\u2019 odd behavior spurs the reveal of their connection to a Celtic cult\u2026and let\u2019s just say Alison won\u2019t like the present they got her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaves are dropping, you\u2019re stocking up on those bags of fun size bars\u2026It\u2019s Trick or Treat time, and that means connoisseurs of horror movies are going to have to make some shelf space for some worthy new hard media&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9749,"featured_media":56834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5583],"coauthors":[11327],"class_list":["post-56835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-articles","tag-horror-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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