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FolknHell
FolknHell is the camp-fire you shouldn’t have wandered up to: a loud, spoiler-packed podcast where three unapologetic cine-goblins – host Andy Davidson and his horror-hungry pals David Hall & Dave Houghton, decide two things about every movie they watch: 1, is it folk-horror, and 2, is it worth your precious, blood-pumping time.
Armed with nothing but “three mates, a microphone, and an unholy amount of spoilers” Intro-transcript the trio torch-walk through obscure European oddities, cult…
Episodes
FolknHellHereditary
Ari Aster’s Hereditary starts with a funeral and somehow finds several worse places to go. FolknHell talks miniatures, grief, ritual, Paimon, a house with no…
FolknHellThe Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project became a phenomenon by convincing audiences there might really be something in the woods. FolknHell goes back to Burkittsville to ask…
FolknHellThe Borderlands
FolknHell heads to a remote Devon church for Elliot Goldner’s found-footage horror The Borderlands, also known as Final Prayer. There are Vatican sceptics, far…
FolknHellRose Of Nevada
Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada gives FolknHell a lost fishing boat, a thirty-year time slip, suspiciously dead fish and a surprisingly strong case for Cornish…
FolknHellThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre
FolknHell tackles Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), its still-shocking violence, suspicious barbecue and surprisingly solid claim to American…
FolknHellThe Blood On Satan's Claw
FolknHell dig up The Blood On Satan’s Claw, Piers Haggard’s 1971 folk horror classic, originally released as Satan’s Skin, and ask, "Is it one of the true…
FolknHellNight Of The Demon
Stone circles, satanic runes and one of the greatest horror performances in British cinema. Andy, Dave and David are joined by legendary horror author Ramsey…
FolknHellThe Wicker Man
A policeman, a pagan island, and one of the most famous endings in horror cinema. Andy, Dave and David head to Summerisle for The Wicker Man and get into its…
FolknHellA Dark Song
A house sealed in salt is already a bad sign. Spending a year inside it with grief, lies and ceremonial magic makes it worse. FolknHell tackles A Dark Song…
FolknHellIn The Earth
In this episode of FolknHell, we head into the fungal murk of In the Earth (2021), Ben Wheatley’s strange, abrasive, hallucinatory pandemic folk horror, where…
FolknHellBring Her Back
Grief turns feral, rituals turn bloody and nobody should watch this one alone. Bring Her Back drags folk horror into the present and bites hard. Bring Her Back…
FolknHellAngel Heart
A noir detective chases a debt through voodoo, fate and the Devil himself. Stylish, slippery and oddly folky. Worth the descent. A humid nightmare of ceiling…
FolknHellLord Of Misrule
Lord of Misrule does not so much ease you into folk horror as shove your face straight into the maypole. From the opening moments it is corn dollies, pagan…
FolknHellWitchfinder General
Michael Reeves's Witchfinder General (1968) is supposed to be one of British folk horror's sacred texts. FolknHell has questions. Vincent Price terrorises East…
FolknHellRabbit Trap & Starve Acre - Double Bill
In the Welsh Valleys and Yorkshire fields, something stirs. Two couples, two hauntings; one whispered through fairy rings, the other screamed through roots and…
FolknHellHellbender
A mother and daughter rock band film themselves into witchcraft legend. Hellbender (2021) is the Adams family’s lockdown-born tale of spells, riffs, and…
FolknHellSennentuntschi
This week the FolknHell trio trek into the Swiss Alps with Sennentuntschi (2010), Michael Steiner’s strange and unsettling take on an Alpine legend. The story…
FolknHellThe Company Of Wolves
Neil Jordan and Angela Carter turn Little Red Riding Hood into a nested dream of wolves, warning stories and growing up. FolknHell gets into the artificial…
FolknHellTumbbad (2018)
Tumbbad turns an ancient god, a permanently rain-soaked village and a hidden hoard of gold into one extremely bad inheritance. FolknHell heads to India for a…
FolknHellKoKo-Di Koko-Da
Johannes Nyholm’s Koko-di Koko-da traps a grieving couple in the woods with three carnivalesque tormentors and one increasingly horrible repetition. FolknHell…
FolknHellIntro to the FolknHell Podcast
Three film-obsessed friends watch deep-cut folk-horror, ask “is it really folk-horror and is it any good?”, then argue, spoil and score it out of 30. Come for…