Folk Horror Primer
31 August 2018 16:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonHere's a starter collection of Folk Horror resources. I hope to keep reading and reviewing them as a form of devotional work, and using this list as a guide to where to go next.
Paganism suffers from a lack of art. That is, Christianity has had the very best and most beautiful and well funded art for hundreds of years, and deliberately-made-Pagan art can rarely complete. They have Michaelangelo! I feel positive about actively rummaging through the rest of the culture for art made by non-Pagans to fill the gaps of hymns and poetry and art.
Books-With-Associated-Blog
Films
Brilliant starter list at:
Extra resources
RadioArticles
Books and music - TBA
Essentially, the best folk horror music doesn't know it's folk horror music. Right? You can't accidentally disturb the ancient Pagan echoes of the land on purpose. There are bands which use clips from Blood On Satan's Claw and cherrypick the creepiest folksongs and market themselves in this zone, but they fall short of what I want from them. For example, I think Let England Shake by PJ Harvey is extremely landweirdy, in a way that anything The Hare and the Moon do is not, no matter how many times I listen with optimism.
Paganism suffers from a lack of art. That is, Christianity has had the very best and most beautiful and well funded art for hundreds of years, and deliberately-made-Pagan art can rarely complete. They have Michaelangelo! I feel positive about actively rummaging through the rest of the culture for art made by non-Pagans to fill the gaps of hymns and poetry and art.
Books-With-Associated-Blog
Films
Brilliant starter list at:
Extra resources
- Where to start with folk horror - BFI
- Hallowed Ground - Empire
- How Folk Horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain
- The Welcome Return of Folk Horror
- Review of the Scovell book
RadioArticles
- The eeriness of the English countryside - very good!
Books and music - TBA
Essentially, the best folk horror music doesn't know it's folk horror music. Right? You can't accidentally disturb the ancient Pagan echoes of the land on purpose. There are bands which use clips from Blood On Satan's Claw and cherrypick the creepiest folksongs and market themselves in this zone, but they fall short of what I want from them. For example, I think Let England Shake by PJ Harvey is extremely landweirdy, in a way that anything The Hare and the Moon do is not, no matter how many times I listen with optimism.
