folk horror Archives - Desperate Living

Wes Craven’s religious slasher film is generally regarded as one of his worst – but it is worthy of critical reassessment.

All You Need is Death is full of interesting ideas, but leaves them undeveloped as it delivers a string of Folk Horror cliches.

The Eurovision also rans team with boy band has-beens for the theme tune to a Christmas horror film.

A collection of Bangladeshi folk horror stories that is impressively creepy and original.

Continuing our festival previews with a look at Sean Hogan’s relentlessly creepy slice of Folk Horror.

The Nottingham Film Festival announces the full 2023 line-up and it looks the strongest yet.

The scary TV shows made for kids in the 1970s were unnervingly good at getting under the skin – and remain just as effective today.

Looking back at the mystical nightmares of one of the oddest films of the 1970s.

A long-overdue re-release for one of the great, under-appreciated film scores of the 1980s.

Continuing our examination of Hammer films with a look at one of their impressively creepy Cornish Horrors of the mid-Sixties.

Continuing our Hammer Films retrospective with a look at the folk horror science fiction classic.

Continuing our Hammer retrospective month with a look at their uncharacteristic and underrated study of rural occultism.