WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR

By Kier-La JANISSE

SEVERIN FILMS (US) - as DISTR Theatrical, DVD-video, VOD, World / PROD

Horror - Completed 2021


Festivals
& Awards

SXSW 2021
Midnighters, Audience Award
Fantasia FF 2021
Documentary, Audience Award
nashville 2021
Graveyard Shift, Feature Competition Winner
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Horror, Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 193 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kier-La JANISSE
    • Writer(s)
    • Kier-La JANISSE
    • Producer(s)
    • David GREGORY (SEVERIN FILMS (US)), Kier-La JANISSE
    • Synopsis
    • WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Michael Reeves’ Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard’s Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973) – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade. Touching on over 200 films and featuring over 50 interviewees, WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED investigates the many ways that we alternately celebrate, conceal and manipulate our own histories in an attempt to find spiritual resonance in our surroundings.